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Histogram and bins

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- [Instructor] A histogram is a great way to understand the distribution of a dataset. I think it would be interesting to take a look at the in stock percentage distribution. So let's go ahead and connect to our course file. And we can connect to time series data as it has the in stock percentage. Let's open up sheet one. And histograms are super simple to create within Tableau. Let's pull in in stock data. And if you'll remember, we need to change the aggregation from some to average as it doesn't really make sense to add percentages together. And come over to the show me tab, all we need to do is click on the histogram icon. And now we can see the distribution of the in stock percentages. What Tableau has done automatically is it's created bins of in stock percentages. Let's open this up and take a look. The size of the bin is 0.0043. We can modify this if we want to, so let's take it down to 0.002. And that gives us a little bit more of a granular look at the distribution of in…

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