![Visually comparing different data distributions: The spread plot](https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/files/2013/05/spread1.png)
Suppose that you have several data distributions that you want to compare. Questions you might ask include "Which variable has the largest spread?" and "Which variables exhibit skewness?" More generally, you might be interested in visualizing how the distribution of one variable differs from the distribution of other variables. The