This document discusses box and whisker plots and the 5-number summary used to describe data distributions. A box and whisker plot depicts the minimum, lower quartile, median, upper quartile, and maximum of a dataset using a box and whiskers. Outliers are defined as values more than 1.5 times the interquartile range below the first quartile or above the third quartile. The document provides an example comparing temperatures from 2005 and 2008 using a box and whisker plot.