A reader need go no further than page two of Leland Wilkinson’s The Grammar of Graphics before reading, “We will also come to realize why a histogram is not a bar chart and why many other graphics ...

A histogram is drawn like a bar chart, but often has bars of unequal width. It is the area of the bar that tells us the frequency in a histogram, not its height. Key fact Instead of plotting frequency ...

Histograms are a way of representing data. They are like bar charts, but show the frequency density instead of the frequency. They can be used to determine information about the distribution of data.

Although there's no simple one-click option for turning data into a histogram chart in Microsoft Office for Mac, you can use the chart tools in Excel to create a histogram that displays distribution ...