The following screenshot gives an idea of how an Excel histogram can look like:
In other words, a histogram graphically displays the number of elements within the consecutive non-overlapping intervals, or bins.įor example, you can make a histogram to display the number of days with a temperature between 61-65, 66-70, 71-75, etc. A histogram is a specific use of a column chart where each column represents the frequency of elements in a certain range. Have you ever made a bar or column chart to represent some numerical data? I bet everyone has. Wikipedia defines a histogram in the following way: ' Histogram is a graphical representation of the distribution of numerical data.' Absolutely true, and… totally unclear :) Well, let's think about histograms in another way.
