import pandas as pd
file = pd.read_xlsx('some_excel_file.xlsx')
file # Just typing this will display the file as a table in jupyter, after ctrl-enter to execute the code block
To plot: import seaborn as sns
%matplotlib inline # This makes the plot appear in the notebook instead of in a separate window
sns.violinplot(file)
Boom, that is it (assuming the Excel file is a number of columns with labels as the top row).[0] http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/datasets/plot_i...