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Color Box-plots

maxikom
Level I

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

 

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.

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hogi
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Re: Color Box-plots

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

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    hogi
    Level XII


    Re: Color Box-plots

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

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      txnelson
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      Re: Color Box-plots

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

      txnelson_0-1733065689150.png

      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 

      txnelson_1-1733066081233.png

      What version/release of JMP are you using?

       

      Jim
      maxikom
      Level I


      Re: Color Box-plots

      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

      txnelson
      Super User


      Re: Color Box-plots

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

      txnelson_0-1733068068525.png

       

      Jim
      maxikom
      Level I


      Re: Color Box-plots

      It does, now it worked. Thanks

      dlehman1
      Level V


      Re: Color Box-plots

      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.

      hogi
      Level XII


      Re: Color Box-plots

      Good point.

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

      hogi_0-1733075002835.png