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Color Box-plots

maxikom — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 13:48:16 GMT

I have read the other conclusions for coloring box-plots but there is no such functin in my graph builder :D

I want the plots in the picture to have diffrend colors, what can i do? I can just change the color of the points and the color of the background. I cant change the color of the plots.

Re: Color Box-plots

hogi — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 15:15:48 GMT

what happens when you drag the column onto "Color"?

(view in My Videos)

Re: Color Box-plots

txnelson — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 15:15:54 GMT

Here is a similar graph to what you are showing in JMP 18

I changed the points to the color black so they are visible

The same similar results are available back through JMP 15. However in JMP 14 a solid box plot does not honor the Color column

What version/release of JMP are you using?

Re: Color Box-plots

maxikom — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 15:40:59 GMT

i am using version 17.2

The method hogi uses works.

But I like it your way that every bosplot has got a different color. And that is what doesnt really work

Re: Color Box-plots

txnelson — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 15:48:13 GMT

Here is the example that I have been using run in JMP 17.2. Doesn't it give you what you want?

Re: Color Box-plots

maxikom — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 15:54:15 GMT

It does, now it worked. Thanks

Re: Color Box-plots

dlehman1 — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:05:09 GMT

I would comment that txnelson's solution is a good example because the same series of categories repeats for the 2 genders. However, if there was only the one set of categories (without the gender variable), then I think coloring the box plots is a bad idea. It looks visually appealing but distracts from the actual data - in my opinion, a poor use of color. With the multiple sets of categories, as in the example you posted, then I think the coloring is useful.

Re: Color Box-plots

hogi — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 17:44:16 GMT

Good point.

For some cases it even makes sense to use the color for the "outer" categories: