Visualization VocabularyDataviz vocabulary
Explanatory diagram: whisker
Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)

encoding

whisker

Segment extending the box out to the retained extreme values.

moustache

Segment prolongeant la boîte jusqu'aux valeurs extrêmes retenues.

Leur règle varie : 1,5 fois l'écart interquartile, les déciles, ou le minimum et le maximum. À préciser.

Classification

  • encoding
  • the name evokes: nature

Attestation

Sources (43)

110 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 1 book

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Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/whisker.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. whisker. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/whisker.html

BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-whisker,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {whisker},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/whisker.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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