Automate Your Histograms

Ways to automatically select the number of bins

Pranay Dave
Towards Data Science
4 min readMar 12, 2022

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Photo by Алекс Арцибашев on Unsplash

The old-fashioned way to create histograms is to specify the number of bins manually. The intelligent way is to use an estimator or algorithms to select the number of bins automatically for you.

There are various techniques to automate the number of bins. In this article, I will list the most common ways. The…

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