topic Re: How to create a box plot for all the character in a table in SAS Visual Analytics

How to create a box plot for all the character in a table

dchaubey1 — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:39:49 GMT

How i can create a box plot for all the character variable.

For sashelp.cars I want to see the distribution of INVOICE with respect to all the character variable such as MAKE, MODEL, TYPE, ORIGIN and DriveTrain. Here i want to create a boxplot to find the distribution.

Re: How to create a box plot for all the character in a table

MarkusWeick — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 11:04:19 GMT

Hi @dchaubey1,

do you want to have all the character variables in one box plot, or one box plot per variable?

Re: How to create a box plot for all the character in a table

Stu_SAS — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 13:38:17 GMT

Hey @dchaubey1! There are a few ways you can visualize categories with box plots. If you want to simply break out your data by a single category, then the category data role is what you want:

If you want to visualize it by multiple categories, such as a matrix of box plots, you want to use the lattice rows or lattice columns data roles:

You can even add categories to your lattice roles:

Re: How to create a box plot for all the character in a table

MarkusWeick — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:54:08 GMT

Hi @dchaubey1,

alternatively you could use an "calculated item" to concatenate the different character variables and then do a box plot with the "calculated item" as category.

So you could have all in one box plot, though with many combinations this may be a confusing picture.

Best

Markus