Create and interpret a box plot

Let's continue using the student_data dataset. In an earlier exercise, we explored the relationship between studying and final grade by using a bar plot to compare the average final grade ("G3") among students in different categories of "study_time".

In this exercise, we'll try using a box plot look at this relationship instead. As a reminder, to create a box plot you'll need to use the catplot() function and specify the name of the categorical variable to put on the x-axis (x=____), the name of the quantitative variable to summarize on the y-axis (y=____), the pandas DataFrame to use (data=____), and the type of plot (kind="box").

We have already imported matplotlib.pyplot as plt and seaborn as sns.

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Introduction to Data Visualization with Seaborn

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Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Specify the category ordering
study_time_order = ["<2 hours", "2 to 5 hours", 
                    "5 to 10 hours", ">10 hours"]

# Create a box plot and set the order of the categories





# Show plot
plt.show()

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Introduction to Data Visualization with Seaborn

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What is Seaborn, and when should you use it? In this chapter, you will find out! Plus, you will learn how to create scatter plots and count plots with both lists of data and pandas DataFrames. You will also be introduced to one of the big advantages of using Seaborn - the ability to easily add a third variable to your plots by using color to represent different subgroups.

Exercise 1: Introduction to Seaborn Exercise 2: Making a scatter plot with lists Exercise 3: Making a count plot with a list Exercise 4: Using pandas with Seaborn Exercise 5: "Tidy" vs. "untidy" data Exercise 6: Making a count plot with a DataFrame Exercise 7: Adding a third variable with hue Exercise 8: Hue and scatter plots Exercise 9: Hue and count plots

In this chapter, you will create and customize plots that visualize the relationship between two quantitative variables. To do this, you will use scatter plots and line plots to explore how the level of air pollution in a city changes over the course of a day and how horsepower relates to fuel efficiency in cars. You will also see another big advantage of using Seaborn - the ability to easily create subplots in a single figure!

Exercise 1: Introduction to relational plots and subplots Exercise 2: Creating subplots with col and row Exercise 3: Creating two-factor subplots Exercise 4: Customizing scatter plots Exercise 5: Changing the size of scatter plot points Exercise 6: Changing the style of scatter plot points Exercise 7: Introduction to line plots Exercise 8: Interpreting line plots Exercise 9: Visualizing standard deviation with line plots Exercise 10: Plotting subgroups in line plots

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Exercise 1: Count plots and bar plots Exercise 2: Count plots Exercise 3: Bar plots with percentages Exercise 4: Customizing bar plots Exercise 5: Box plots Exercise 6: Create and interpret a box plot

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Exercise 7: Omitting outliers Exercise 8: Adjusting the whiskers Exercise 9: Point plots Exercise 10: Customizing point plots Exercise 11: Point plots with subgroups

In this final chapter, you will learn how to add informative plot titles and axis labels, which are one of the most important parts of any data visualization! You will also learn how to customize the style of your visualizations in order to more quickly orient your audience to the key takeaways. Then, you will put everything you have learned together for the final exercises of the course!

Exercise 1: Changing plot style and color Exercise 2: Changing style and palette Exercise 3: Changing the scale Exercise 4: Using a custom palette Exercise 5: Adding titles and labels: Part 1 Exercise 6: FacetGrids vs. AxesSubplots Exercise 7: Adding a title to a FacetGrid object Exercise 8: Adding titles and labels: Part 2 Exercise 9: Adding a title and axis labels Exercise 10: Rotating x-tick labels Exercise 11: Putting it all together Exercise 12: Box plot with subgroups Exercise 13: Bar plot with subgroups and subplots Exercise 14: Well done! What's next?