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histogram

Creates a new table with a histogram based on the column name passed in.

Syntax: histogram <column_name> ...args

Parameters

  • <column-name>: name of the column to graph by
  • args: column name to give the histogram's frequency column

Examples

Let's say we have this file random_numers.csv which contains 50 random numbers.

Note: The input doesn't have to be numbers it works on strings too. Try it out.

> open random_numbers.csv
open random_numbers2.csv
━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 #  │ random numbers
────┼────────────────
  00
  15
  25
   ...
 470
 482
 494
━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

If we now want to see how often the different numbers were generated, we can use the histogram function:

> open random_numbers2.csv | histogram "random numbers"
━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 # │ random numbers │ frequency
───┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 00              │ ****************************************************************************************************
 11              │ ******************************
 22              │ *************************************************************
 33              │ *********************************************************************
 44              │ *****************************************************
 55              │ *********************************************************************
━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

We can also set the name of the second column or sort the table:

> open random_numbers2.csv | histogram "random numbers" probability
━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 # │ random numbers │ probability
───┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 00              │ ****************************************************************************************************
 11              │ ******************************
 22              │ *************************************************************
 33              │ *********************************************************************
 44              │ *****************************************************
 55              │ *********************************************************************
━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

> open random_numbers2.csv | histogram "random numbers" probability | sort-by probability
━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 # │ random numbers │ probability
───┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 01              │ ******************************
 14              │ *****************************************************
 22              │ *************************************************************
 33              │ *********************************************************************
 45              │ *********************************************************************
 50              │ ****************************************************************************************************
━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━