Histograms with Examples


Peering Inside Histogram Bins

A histogram is a powerful tool for exploring data. An initial histogram-based examination will often raise additional questions:

  • Why is this bin so large?
  • Why is this other bin so much smaller than expected?
  • Are there any other features correlated with the distribution depicted in the histogram?

One way to answer these questions is to simply peer inside the histogram bins. This post covers a tool and notebook in oarphpy for doing exactly that.