40 Years of Boxplots? Are you serious?
It’s a paper by Hadley Wickham and Lisa Stryjewski detailing John Tukey’s 1970 introduction of the boxplot as well as changes, improvements, and adaptations to the visualization.
I’m not going to summarize it here ‘cause I think you need the visuals and I already post enough crap here without explicit permission and therefore won’t be reposting any from the article, but seriously, read it. It’s fascinating.
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