Statistics • Organizing and Graphing Data
Enter raw quantitative data and this tool will construct a stem-and-leaf display. You can choose whether each leaf shows the last one digit (e.g. test scores) or the last two digits (e.g. three- and four-digit rents). The calculator produces both an unsorted and a ranked (sorted) stem-and-leaf display.
A stem-and-leaf display is a table-like plot that shows quantitative data by splitting each value into a stem (leading digits) and a leaf (last digit or last two digits). It summarizes the distribution while keeping every original observation visible.
Use 1-digit leaves for two-digit data such as test scores so the stem is the tens digit and the leaf is the ones digit. Use 2-digit leaves for three- and four-digit values so the stem is all digits except the last two and the leaf is the last two digits.
An unsorted display lists leaves in the order the data are entered. A ranked (sorted) display rearranges the leaves for each stem in increasing order, making the distribution shape and typical values easier to see.
Yes. Each value can be reconstructed by combining its stem with its leaf, so no individual observations are lost.