Recreating Monthly Design Temperatures Chart

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Hi everyone, new here
I’m trying to create a box plot that shows averages of the monthly highest and lowest dry bulb temperatures, basically recreating the monthly design temperatures graph by Ecotect using ladybug.
This graph is a very useful and simple visual tool that shows at a glance the temperatures that must be designed for.
I’ve seen that LB_selectAndAverageData has been suggested in previous posts but I’m using the latest ladybug version.
Creating a simple bar chart using LB Monthly Plot and LB Time Interval Operation has the graph beginning at 0 instead of the minimum monthly temperature.
Does anyone know if I can calculate the minimum and maximum monthly dry bulb temperatures using a combination of LB Monthly Plot and LB Time Interval Operation?
If anyone has any ideas or tips that can help me get started it would be much appreciated!
thanks :slight_smile:

Update1: I’ve managed to extract the max and min monthly averages, but the problem remains that values begin at 0 and now each month is represented by 2 bars.
Any ideas on how to combine the max and min for each month into a box plot?
thanks :slight_smile:

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No update on that, too bad, I have the same question ?

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There is clearly a problem here

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Alright, guess that’s just doing by that by design, can we help you guys to make it a little better ?
This graph is useless for communicating about temperatures.

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Hi @Alakelele and @Alapeace

I’m not sure what else you would expect when you plug a Monthly Data Collection with only 12 values into that chart. Maybe we could do a line chart instead of a bar one but either of those is really easy to do in Excel if you just export the data.

Have you tried using it with Hourly Data Collections yet?

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That’s typically how the component is used.

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Well, we just think that the way this element TimeOp is not really useful in its current form.
At least for communicating results/data.
Having a Min/Max temp per month and displaying those as a bar that starts from the min temperature would make a lot of sense.
Of course we can always use excel/another element such as Hourly Data Collections yet but the question was specific to this TimeOp element and its representation graphically.