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Creating Boxplots of Well Log Data Using Matplotlib in Python

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Andy McDonald
Aug 28, 2021
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Understand your data distribution and identify outliers in petrophysics and well log data using boxplots

Multiple boxplots with different y-axis ranges generated using matplotlib in python. Image by author.

Boxplots are a great tool for data visualisation, they can be used to understand the distribution of your data, whether it is skewed or not, and whether any outliers are present. In this article, we will look at what boxplots are and how we can display them using pandas and matplotlib.

To accompany this article, I have made the following YouTube Video.

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