# Alpha diversity box plots

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-diversity-box-plots/1241
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** pending-development
**Created:** [September 14, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-diversity-box-plots/1241 "2017-09-14T20:06:52Z")
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### Author: ![Lisa\_Crummett](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/lisa_crummett/32/4280_2.png) [@Lisa\_Crummett](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Lisa_Crummett)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-diversity-box-plots/1241/1 "2017-09-14T20:06:52Z")

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I have two questions:  
(1) Is there a way to access the raw values displayed in the alpha diversity box plots in case we want to make our own plots?  
(2) Is there a way to reorder the samples shown on the x axis of the boxplots? For instance... My x-axis is days of experiment and the order is currently jumbled rather than being shown from left to right as Day1.....Day20.

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### Author: ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-diversity-box-plots/1241/2 "2017-09-15T12:34:23Z")

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Hi @Lisa_Crummett!

> [@Lisa\_Crummett](#):
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> Is there a way to access the raw values displayed in the alpha diversity box plots

Unfortunately not yet, but [it is on our radar](https://github.com/qiime2/q2-diversity/issues/133). We will update this thread whenever it becomes available (no ETA yet).

> [@Lisa\_Crummett](#):
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> Is there a way to reorder the samples shown on the x axis of the boxplots

Sorry, that isn't available, but I have [opened an issue](https://github.com/qiime2/q2-diversity/issues/139) on our issue tracker so that we can keep this in mind in future iterations of QIIME 2. It seems like the data export you requested above is probably higher priority, because if you had access to that data, you could plot it however you like!

> [@Lisa\_Crummett](#):
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> the order is currently jumbled

That is unexpected - would you be able to attach a screenshot of those jumbled axis values here?

Thanks!

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### Author: ![system](https://forum-qiime2-org.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/2/1/21af5fe23cb6f4579467c66a9ed94e55274ca7bd.svg) [@system](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-diversity-box-plots/1241/3 "2017-10-16T18:34:27Z")

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