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Box Plot with Min/Max Whiskers

A vertical 2D box plot showing median, min, and max in the US population distribution of age groups in 2000.

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Vega-Lite JSON Specification

{
  "$schema": "https://vega.github.io/schema/vega-lite/v3.json",
  "description": "A vertical 2D box plot showing median, min, and max in the US population distribution of age groups in 2000.",
  "data": {"url": "data/population.json"},
  "mark": {
    "type": "boxplot",
    "extent": "min-max"
  },
  "encoding": {
    "x": {"field": "age", "type": "ordinal"},
    "y": {
      "field": "people",
      "type": "quantitative",
      "axis": {"title": "population"}
    }
  }
}