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Default Histogram Bin Widths: How To Do It Right And The Software That Does It Wrong

Posted by By d-callan November 30, 2022Posted inProgrammatic Plotting1 Comment
Why does it matter? It does. It really really really really does. A Histogram is highly sensitive to its bin width, and may give different representations of the distribution of…
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The Histogram: Some Common and Not-So-Common Variants

Posted by By d-callan October 23, 2021Posted inGraphical Literacy
What is it? The traditional Histogram provides an approximate representation of the distribution of continuous data. This is typically done by binning, or discretizing, the data into equidistant ranges. These…
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The Frequency Polygon: For When You’d Prefer Your Histogram be a Line Plot

Posted by By d-callan October 31, 2021Posted inGraphical Literacy
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