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Leveraging box plots and violin plots

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Leveraging box plots and violin plots

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- [Instructor] One way we can visualize the distribution of values within a variable is through box and whisker plots, or box plots for short. These visuals let us analyze minimum, maximum, median, and so on for a set of values. Another similar plot that we can use for analyzing distribution of values is the violin plot. The violin plot is a custom visual that will download through the Power BI App Source store. Violin plot that has readily analyzed data sets on a high level. Let's add a violin plot to our Power BI model. The violin plot only requires the sampling and measure data fields to render the visual. Let's put the county in the sampling and the most recent population in the measure data. This creates a single violin plot to illustrate the distribution of county populations for the most recent year of US census data. Let's split it into four regional violin plots by adding the region field to the category. We…

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