When trying to home in on issues in a dataset, a histogram can be one of the most effective tools in performing root-cause analysis of the dataset. However, creating an effective histogram in itself can prove to be  a challenge because you need to take a lot of factors into consideration to make it useful. In this video I’ll present some of the major challenges we face in creating an effective histogram and how we solve them.

Tags: binning, kernel density estimation, histogram, visualization, analysis, Dataset