[esyir]

Pretty much why summary statistics often give the IQR, which gives some idea to the skew and shape of the distribution as well.

Unfortunately, BD and marketing just want a single number to show that the value is bigger and hate anything more complicated than a barchart.

[djk447]

NB: Post author here.

We've been meaning to add IQR as an accessor function for these, may have to go back and do it...the frequency trails [1] stuff from Brendan Gregg also goes into some of this and it's really cool as a visualization.

[1]: https://www.brendangregg.com/FrequencyTrails/mean.html

[varelaz]

Barchart is basically your percentiles (just more of them) so why not show it? Bars and whiskers could be more complicated for them but still the same sort of data

[fwip]

Barcharts across categorical data :P

That is, the first bar is "Our Number" and the second bar is "Competitor's number."

[esyir]

Someone clearly gets it. Variability viz and spread detracts from that clear message.