Box And Whisker Calculate Our Own 5 Number Summary

[JimM]

There is another box and whisker thread open right now, but I think this is a separate question...

 

Is there any way that we can calculate the 5 numbers for the 5 number summary on our own and simply feed those 5 values to the chart? We have millions of data points per set and leaving these calculations up to the front end introduces unwelcome performance issues. We would much prefer to do the calculations on our back end and just use the chart for displaying rather than calculating. It looks like this is not built in by default, but we would be happy to do some more complex coding acrobatics to access these parameters if we can make this happen.

 

For example, I would like to pass values like this:

min=5

Q1=10

median=20

Q3=30

max=35

[Guest Sumedh]

There is another box and whisker thread open right now, but I think this is a separate question...

 

Is there any way that we can calculate the 5 numbers for the 5 number summary on our own and simply feed those 5 values to the chart? We have millions of data points per set and leaving these calculations up to the front end introduces unwelcome performance issues. We would much prefer to do the calculations on our back end and just use the chart for displaying rather than calculating. It looks like this is not built in by default, but we would be happy to do some more complex coding acrobatics to access these parameters if we can make this happen.

 

For example, I would like to pass values like this:

min=5

Q1=10

median=20

Q3=30

max=35

 

Hi,

 

Chart automatically calculates the five number summary, depending upon the data provided to the chart.

 

Manually calculating the data and passing to the chart, is not possible.

 

Thanks for your time.