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Bars that confess how your data actually behaves when no one's watching.
means A chart that sorts numeric data into ranges and shows, with bars, how many values fall into each range — revealing the shape of a distribution.
from Coined in the early 1890s by the statistician Karl Pearson, who fused the Greek 'histos' (mast, web, or upright thing — think of the vertical bars) with '-gram' (something written or drawn). Pearson may have also been playing on 'historical diagram,' since he used these charts to display data over time, but the bar-like 'histos' sense is the one that stuck.
- bin width
- too wide hides truth, too narrow shows noise
- invented by
- Karl Pearson coined it in 1891
- not a bar chart
- bars touch because the x-axis is continuous
- shape talk
- skew and kurtosis are basically gossip about outliers