Two graphs that let you see how a bunch of numbers are spread out, at a glance. A box plot shows how spread out one set of data is; a scatter plot shows the relationship between two sets of data.
When there's a lot of data, it's hard to spot patterns just by looking at a table of raw numbers. That's why there are several graphs that summarize data visually โ and box plots and scatter plots are especially useful for seeing how spread out (dispersed) data is.
A box plot lines data up in order and summarizes it with five numbers: the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum. The wider the box, the more spread out the data is. A scatter plot plots two variables on the horizontal and vertical axes as points, showing at a glance whether there's a relationship between the two.
These get used all the time in real-world data analysis โ think of a box plot for a distribution of test scores, or a scatter plot for the relationship between height and weight. Switch between the tabs to explore each graph.