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What is a Histogram?

What is a Histogram?

Histograms are a type of chart that shows the frequency of a set of values within a dataset.

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The first project for this section is to draw a histogram. Histograms are great at showing a distribution of values. Let’s look at why we might want to draw a histogram.

Here is the scatterplot we drew in an earlier lesson. Scatterplots are great at showing the relationships between two metrics. It answers the question of whether or not one metric affects the other.

Frequency

What if our question was how frequently a value appears? It’s sort of hard to tell because the data is all over ...