Custom Visual Guide
Box and Whisker chart

Sam McKay
CEO & Founder
Box and Whisker chart
isualize a dataset in an effective way as a five-number summary (mean, median, quartiles, min/max)
The Box and whisker plot chart for Power BI is a convenient way of graphically depicting groups of numerical data through their quartiles.
It shows basic statistical information (five-number summary) of a dataset:
- the 1st and 3rd quartile (box)
- the median (line)
- the mean (dot)
- minimum and maximum value, 1.5x interquartile range [IQR] or custom percentile value (whiskers)
Other options:
- Add static reference line(s)
- Option to show outliers
- Option to show median/mean indicators
- Optional support for highlight and ‘Fixed Categories’
- Label formatting options, including font size and font family
- Option to enable data labels
Release Notes
[2.5.3.0]
NEW
- Support for bookmarks
- Added ‘Log’ axis
- Support for ‘Report tooltips’
- Added High Contrst support
CHANGED
- Option to incluse zero/null
- Fix for start/end axis values
- Removed fixed dataPoint limit
- Improved highlight support
[2.1.0.0]
NEW
- Support for highlighting
- Add ‘sampling’ details to tooltips
- Add changing category axis label orientation
CHANGED
- Changing data colors fixed
- Outlier tooltips shows now correct values
[2.0.0.0]
NEW
- Fixed value reference line
- Axis formatting options (font, text size, decimals, units)
- Axis titles + formatting options
- Data labels formatting
CHANGED
- Quartile calculation (excluding/including)
- Extra custom whisker type: custom percentile values
- Fixed color for all categories
- Coloring option to mean and median indicators
[1.0.0.0]
- First release to the Office Store
This is an open source visual. Code is available at my GitHub: https://github.com/liprec/powerbi-boxWhiskerChart
– Jan Pieter Posthuma, DataScenarios
Capabilities.
- Can read and make changes to your document
- Can send data over the Internet