.. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_intro_matplotlib_auto_examples_pretty_plots_plot_boxplot_ext.py: Boxplot with matplotlib ======================= An example of doing box plots with matplotlib .. image:: /intro/matplotlib/auto_examples/pretty_plots/images/sphx_glr_plot_boxplot_ext_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: python import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8, 5)) axes = plt.subplot(111) n = 5 Z = np.zeros((n, 4)) X = np.linspace(0, 2, n) Y = np.random.random((n, 4)) plt.boxplot(Y) plt.xticks([]) plt.yticks([]) # Add a title and a box around it from matplotlib.patches import FancyBboxPatch ax = plt.gca() ax.add_patch(FancyBboxPatch((-0.05, .87), width=.66, height=.165, clip_on=False, boxstyle="square,pad=0", zorder=3, facecolor='white', alpha=1.0, transform=plt.gca().transAxes)) plt.text(-0.05, 1.02, " Box Plot: plt.boxplot(...)\n ", horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='top', size='xx-large', transform=axes.transAxes) plt.text(-0.04, .98, "\n Make a box and whisker plot ", horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='top', size='large', transform=axes.transAxes) plt.show() **Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes 0.057 seconds) .. _sphx_glr_download_intro_matplotlib_auto_examples_pretty_plots_plot_boxplot_ext.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Python source code: plot_boxplot_ext.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: plot_boxplot_ext.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_