Histogram
A histogram is similar to a bar chart, but it groups numbers into ranges (buckets). Analytics automates the “bucketing” of numbers into ranges, but you can change the settings in Advanced Settings.
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To create a histogram:
- Click Visualizations in the left rail.
- Drag Histogram to the panel.
- Choose a Metric to drag to the Histogram visualization and click Build.
Here we have used the Page Views Metric per Unique Visitors. The first (left) bucket corresponds to 1 page view per unique person, the second bucket to two page views, etc.
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To adjust your histogram settings, click the Settings (“gear”) icon in the upper right corner. Here are the settings you can modify:
Examples:
- Starting Bucket: 1; Metric Buckets: 5; Metric Bucket Size: 2 will result in this histogram: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10.
- Starting Bucket: 0; Metric Buckets: 3; Metric Bucket Size: 5 will result in this histogram: 0-4, 5-9, 10-14
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To view or change the data source for the histogram chart, click the dot next to the Histogram header to go to Data Source Settings > Show Data Source.
Pre-built filters that show up in the table are internal filters and won’t show up in the filter selector. Click the “i” icon next to the filter name, then click Make public to make the filter public.
To explore more ways to manage Freeform data tables and other visualizations, such as doing data breakdowns, go here.
Blog post
Refer to this blog post about information on using histograms to identify unexpected data values.