How To Create A Histogram in Excel (& change the bin size)
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2024
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An Excel histogram chart is very easy to make. However it's not always clear when to use a histogram chart or how to adjust it to your needs. Generally, histogram charts are often confused with bar charts. They're very different though. A histogram groups continuous data into ranges, also called bins. The height of each bar shows how many fall into each bin. A histogram is the most commonly used graph to show frequency distributions for data with large value ranges.
In this video I'll show you how you can easily setup a histogram chart in Excel from scratch. We'll also cover how we can customize the bins and format the chart professionally.
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🔍 What You'll Learn:
- The purpose and benefits of using histogram charts in Excel.
- Step-by-step process for setting up a histogram chart.
- Customizing bin sizes and ranges for tailored data analysis.
👩💼 Perfect for:
- HR professionals looking to analyze salary distributions.
- Excel users interested in data visualization techniques.
- Anyone wanting to understand data spread across various ranges.
📌 Key Highlights:
- Create and customize histogram charts for clear data insights.
- Understand data distributions within specific ranges.
- Make dynamic histograms that update with your data.
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00:00 When to use a histogram chart
01:16 Excel histogram from scratch
01:32 Change Excel histogram bin size
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I have found over the years that sometimes the shorter "How to" Excel videos are the ones that stick with me the longest. I appreciate the easy to understand and format of the video well done.
Great to hear!
they also have great relookup value. like if I want to find this video again it's super easy to just find a quick short video than it is to remember the long general topic
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I spent hours trying to help my son create a histogram for an assignment, using the guide provided by the teacher. We were down to this last feature, with no understanding on how to adjust the bin or even what the bin was. Thanks so much for making it so simple!
Another very concise and informative lesson on one of the many chart features of Excel.
What I have truly come to appreciate is while you are a well spoken, educated, teacher who understands real world applications of Excel. You are also the kind of woman who enjoys poking a marshmallow with a stick then roasting it over hot coals.
I've watched a few of your videos. I just want to say thank you for presenting the subject in such an easy to understand way. It only took watching two of your videos to have my boss and colleagues looking to me as the local "excel guru".
Now I'll have to watch the rest of your videos to keep that title.
I've found the histogram function surprisingly limited in terms of features and adjustments in excel, but the overflow and underflow features you have displayed here are very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you so much! I have looked at 6 videos to learn how to create a histogram from my data and your instruction was the clearest explanation of them all. Thanks again!
This is the by far best explanation ever of this Excel trick, I went to dozens of sites for an explanation. Yours is by far the best! Congrats and thank you!
Thank you Leila, first time i used Histograms, and as always, the explanation is spot on..
Thank you soo much for this video!. I've never created one of these and I found out we are going to create this for my class in psychology. You have really made me feel more at ease doing these.
Im now your number 1 fan. Officially!
Love from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
I'm happy to hear that :)
I bow before you Leila! yours are the best tutorials in RUclips. Many thanks!!
Wow, thank you!
Superb work Leila, i was scratching my head for ours with 500+ datasets and you have shown me what to do in 4 minutes
As usual, clear and easy to understand explanation. I give your videos a big credit for my Excel skills
Wow...you're such an amazing teacher. I've learned a lot from you. Thanks for sharing
It's my pleasure :)
In many sites including MS, I couldn't get my question answered, I got answer from your video. Valuable one. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
This is the best video for me as an Excel beginner...I really like it. It really helped me to answer my excel assignment question...Please add more videos in relation to EXCEL.
Love your work and your will to teach us all this "secrets" that Excel have!
Thank you so much. Very useful to see the distribution of student grades....
Perfect use for it!
girl you just saved my life. God Bless!
Hi Leila!Great Explanation On Histogram Charts..Thank You :)
very useful. i've been on the struggle making these but this video really helped me understand
U are the best and most pleasant to listen too.
Nice and precise explanation. Thank you!
You're such a BOSS! I appreciate the tutorial. But, as always, you drop jems on us to level up our presentation. Thanks!
I appreciate that, Nathan!
This is so helpful. Thanks for going in depth on this Leila. :)
My pleasure. I'm glad it's helpful :)
Hi Leila. I’m writing to you for the very first time. I really love your videos. Your style of explanation and bringing examples completely fits my way of understanding. Thank you a lot. Coming back to the topic, I’d like to ask you if you can show how to create a histogram chart that shows how big the values on the vertical axis and what shares of the total amount the values stand for on the horizontal axis. The practical use of it is very convenient when we are talking about marketing data for a set of products in a product line and their sales levels. So I’d like to see what share out of the total product line a certain product has (on the horizontal axis) and what sales level in dollars this product stands for (on the vertical axis). The specific thing is that the width of each column must correspond to its share value.
Excellent explanation Leila. Thank you for sharing with us this graphic!!
You're very welcome, Iván!
Thanks for help, I was able to understand everything very clear. A million of thanks!!:)
Great histogram explanation. Currently taking your excel dashboard course, it is great too. Thanks for making this available!
Awesome, thank you Mark!
Short and Sweet! I never tried Overflow and Underflow feature, but your video has put me in correct flow to know these! Thanks again for a nice tutorial and looking forward to next Thursday already! (nice attire in this video by the way!) :-)
Glad you like it, Vijay. Hope it will come in handy for you.
I like your examples, they are very didactic and applied in our working life... from Lima-Peru my best wishes
I'm glad to hear that :)
I learned so much from this video. It showed me exactly how to change the bin size and much more than I anticipated. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for this easy explanation!
Superb as always.
Thanks from india !!
Thanks Leila, I don't currently use histogram but I think I will add two of them to my August month end reports. The first will be Annual Sales by Customer and the second will be Average Order Size. I will let you know how they look. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Go Ravens!
Always bringing something new on the table
Trying my best 😊
you saved my statistics project, love u
Brilliant explanation ❤
That's great. I was defining the CI earlier to group manually
Very nice video on Histogram.
great video. Learnt a lot
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This video seriously saved me. Awesome instruction.
Glad it was helpful, Jemma.
Simple and great explanation. V. Good
You just made my day, thanks! :)
Very informative. Thank you
Wow...you made it so easy to follow. Please come declutter my life!!
Leila Gharani always excelled in excel and dress
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Thank you so much!😀
Exceptional Fam!
Hi Leila. Thanks for the video. Very helpful. On a standard chart, if you add a Chart Title, you can link it to a cell on the worksheet. On the Histogram Chart, this seems to not work. You can only type text in manually.. no worksheet link. Seems like a bug. Of course, you can add a Text Box, link it to a cell and then Group the Text Box and Chart together. But, would be nice if the Histogram Chart natively supported Chart Title cell links. Histogram charts are great visualizations. I use them often to show the distribution of tenants with different lease rates in a commercial building.. just one of many uses. Thanks for the Thursday Histogram Chart fun :)) Thumbs up!
Very helpful, I usually work with Power BI desktop, actually most of us use PBI desktop now for visualization.
Such a coincidence I got an excel with histogram visuals and was asked to replicate that in to PBI report.
Heyah, i opened one assigned Udemy training to me and i saw you are the Instructor great to see you there and enroll in your course in Udemy, more power! :D
OmG; never seen such a simple illustration.
Using histogram for my masters statistics course.
Glad you like it.
I love your videos
Спасибо большое, Лейла!
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Short, but very informative video
Thank you!
That intro music is pretty lit
Nice and easy on the brain power today :)
Thanks!
very short and informative
Leila.Good afternoon. I started to follow your excel videos and dashboard. very good teaching. More I would like to ask to enable subtitles in Portuguese
thanks again leila
Great video as always, but for this one I love the soundtrack
Me too 💃😁
Thank you
I don’t use it currently but I will moving forward as the data I work with can definitely work for this.
That's great, Ashley. Let us know how it went.
I mostly use the histogram chart in Excel to do quick and dirty visualizations of long datasets or when I need to get an intuitive sense of the distribution of a variable in a Monte Carlo simulation. As someone else mentioned, there are formatting issues with the native chart, so if I'm outputting something into a report or what not, I'll go back to a column chart as that allows for more formatting flexibility.
Thanks for sharing your experience, Jonathan!
Thanks, more about charts plz.
Thank 👍
Nice video Leila
Hi Leila! Is there a way to add dashes between the upper limit and lower limit numbers in each bin like 10-20, 20-30, 30-40 and so on?
I’m a DJ using histograms to visualize track quantity by beats-per-minute (BPM). It’s useful to spot multiple modes in a large playlist and the BPMs above or below which you’ll have trouble finding another track to mix with (e.g., +/- 4 BPMs usually). Thanks!
I like the Salsa in the background. Do you dance it? 🎺🎵🌿
The core purpose... well, whether it's simpler or harder, you always rock it.
Oh, so that is Salsa? Sorry, not a dancer 😁
Great video! Is there a way to remove the square brackets in the x axis of the chart? For example change the [30,000, 70,000] to 30,000 - 70,000?
Another wonderful video! Thank you, Leila!! I had the same thought. It looks odd - left side round bracket, right side square. Would look cleaner without brackets - on first look, it implies negative numbers.
To good...👍
Nice concept. Can you please do this mac users? Thank you
thanks.
This is a great new feature. Thanks for showing. I am confused by bin width though. It would appear that the first bin will always be bigger as it will include the lower and upper value assigned to it. 30k and 110k in your example. The next bin is smaller (very slightly in your case) as it will not include anyone with 30k. My data is with ages of students at a college where the error is more pronounced, as the first bin is 18-21 and the second is 21-24. The first bin includes students who are either 18,19,20,21 and the second bin only three 22,23,24. Thoughts?
Nice
Leila,
I use custom views a lot in excel, they save time and memory because you dont need multiple tabs to show each view. That being said, is there a third party tool to allow for multiple selections versus having to check the check box individually ? I sometimes have groups in hundreds of rows I wish to filter, it is time consuming, tedious. I wish Microsoft would address and fix this problem.
Can't they make the check boxes multi-selectable like google does with gmail emails ?
Thanks for sharing.
How to add smooth curve in histogram.
Great! Can I add normal curve on histogram in excel automatically?
very useful lesson , do you know channels on RUclips explaining Microsoft word programme
This just saved me 7 hours of trial and error😂 💪
I used histogram for account balances in different account.
How do we create histogram with variable width for classes with varying widhts?
What if you don't have 2016 and have created a histogram from a pivot table, ie, pivot column chart? I can group the categories by values, but they need to be consistent. Is there a way of creating an overflow bin?
Dear Leila, at 3:09 timepoint, if someone has a salary of 70,000, will he be included in the 2nd bin or the 3rd bin? I am asking this because both the bins have the value of 70,000 in them.
Hey Leila - is there an easy way to make a log scale on the histo ...
Hey Leila, I think I heard you say on another vid that we can make suggestions for future vids in the comments?
Could you, if you haven’t, talk to the excel vs other options?
What you see as the future of excel (not going anywhere or dying out?
I’m not thinking so much about google sheets. More, when I look at productivity stuff, which I’ve used excel for...seems like theirs apps that are meant to be better/easier?
Not just project management. I’d use excel for budgets, or customer management, or just personal lists. Nowadays it seems like theirs an app for all these things and more.
How do you see excel in that light?
And, also the future generally
Hey Leila I have a question about your course. If I take it will it be like taking lessons in college? I.e. learning the basics then it becomes more advanced?
Not sure which course you mean but generally the curriculum is structured and the lectures build on each other.
Leila,
I would like to know if you can suggest the best formula which would enable you identify counts of full and partial payment for a set of figures in a spreadsheet . Thanks.
Hi Kobe, i think i can help. u need to use a formula in conditional formats that says if any cell in that column of amount is less than certain amount, then it should be coloured in red or whichever colour u choose. your formula would be =$A2
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Always useful amazing video and i learn from it to more better knowledge when i’m using excel. Thank you so much 🙏🏻
My pleasure :)
Hi Leila, great videos, has helped me improve in excel vba very much. Had a little query about functions, can we use a function to return a string in bold format which will be concatenated? The string will be taken as a parameter in the function. I'm not quite sure if its possible. Thanks for the help. Cheers.
This is so helpful!!! This example applies to my job 100% and now I have all these ideas now.
Happy to help, George :)
Thanks Leila, please why some people uses frequency in Y axis? what this does mean?