From the course: Data Visualization Tips and Tricks
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Histograms for a single measure
From the course: Data Visualization Tips and Tricks
Histograms for a single measure
- [Instructor] When it comes to looking at distributions in our data, what we're looking at is actually the frequency of a particular value, as it appears in our dataset. Now really common and good way of doing that is with a histogram, which is basically a kind of modified bar chart. Now how it works is it categorizes each of the values into a number of bins and then counts the occurrence of those values. So let's build this in a standard bar chart and then we'll build it in a histogram, so you can see how the difference works and the importance of binning. So, first of all, we're going to look at one month worth of data, so we're going to look at December, 2015. And we're going to look at all of the orders in our dataset and how much profit each one generated. So for that, let's just build a bar chart using order ID and the profit. Put our order ID in here and we'll put our profit. Change it to be entire view.…
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