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Published inJul 2017
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RAJAT MEHTA
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The author is a VP (Technical Architect) in technology in JP Morgan Chase in New York. The author is a sun certified java developer and has worked on java related technologies for more than 16 years. Current role for the past few years heavily involves the usage of bid data stack and running analytics on it. Author is also a contributor in various open source projects that are available on his GitHub repository and is also a frequent write on dev magazines.
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Histograms


A Histogram is a special kind of bar chart. A histogram depicts some quantitative value on the x axis and frequency of that value on the y axis. The main feature of a histogram is that in a histogram, the x axes are grouped into bins and we treat each bin as a category. Thus, for a particular value, we take both the x axis bin and the frequency on the y axis into account.

Let's try to understand a histogram using the same cars.json dataset, which we used earlier. For the quantitative variable on the x axis, we will be using the number of cars grouped by each country and depict that on the x axis. The Y axis will denote the frequency of the number of counts, that is, the percentage or probability of countries with that amount of cars in the dataset. The diagram is as shown next:

As you can see in the preceding chart, the maximum number of countries have a number of cars between 0 and 10 count. Next is the countries with cars between 10 and 20 count, and the remaining few between...

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Published in: Jul 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787288980

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RAJAT MEHTA

The author is a VP (Technical Architect) in technology in JP Morgan Chase in New York. The author is a sun certified java developer and has worked on java related technologies for more than 16 years. Current role for the past few years heavily involves the usage of bid data stack and running analytics on it. Author is also a contributor in various open source projects that are available on his GitHub repository and is also a frequent write on dev magazines.
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