How to Visualize and Compare Distributions. There are a lot of ways to show distributions, but for the purposes of this tutorial, I’m only going to cover the more traditional plot types like histograms and box plots. Otherwise, we could be here all night. Plus the basic distribution plots aren’t exactly well-used as it is. Before you get into plotting in R though, you should know what I mean by distribution. It’s basically the spread of a dataset. What happens in between the maximum value and median? Want more? If you don’t have R installed yet, do that now.
Box-and-Whisker Plot This old standby was created by statistician John Tukey in the age of graphing with pencil and paper. The method might be old, but they still work for showing basic distribution. To get started, load the data in R. Remove the District of Columbia from the loaded data. Oh, and you don’t need the national averages for this tutorial either.
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