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What is the difference between a box plot and a histogram?

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Below is the difference between Box Plot and Histogram:

While boxplots and histograms are visualizations used to show the distribution of the data, they communicate information differently.

Histograms are bar charts that show the frequency of a numerical variable’s values and are used to approximate the probability distribution of the given variable. It allows you to quickly understand the shape of the distribution, the variation, and potential outliers.

Boxplots communicate different aspects of the distribution of data. While you can’t see the shape of the distribution through a box plot, you can gather other information like the quartiles, the range, and outliers. Boxplots are especially useful when you want to compare multiple charts at the same time because they take up less space than histograms.

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