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title: bw
description: The documentation page depicts the usage and configuration options for
  the 'bw' function in OpenBB Terminal. The function plots box and whisker graphs
  for quantitative data analysis based on provided DataFrame and target. An example
  using stock data for 'AAPL' is provided for a clearer understanding.
keywords:
- Box and Whisker Plots
- Quantitative Analysis
- Yearly Accumulation
- External Axes
- AAPL
- Adjusted Close
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Plots box and whisker plots

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/common/quantitative_analysis/qa_view.py#L270)]

```python
openbb.qa.bw(data: pd.DataFrame, target: str, symbol: str = "", yearly: bool = True, external_axes: Optional[List[matplotlib.axes._axes.Axes]] = None)
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| symbol | str | Name of dataset |  | True |
| data | pd.DataFrame | Dataframe to look at | None | False |
| target | str | Data column to look at | None | False |
| yearly | bool | Flag to indicate yearly accumulation | True | True |
| external_axes | Optional[List[plt.Axes]] | External axes (1 axis is expected in the list), by default None | None | True |


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## Returns

This function does not return anything

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## Examples

```python
from openbb_terminal.sdk import openbb
df = openbb.stocks.load("AAPL")
openbb.qa.bw(data=df, target="Adj Close")
```

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