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Re:What's so hard about histograms? by acbart on Saturday July 22, 2017 @04:55AM (#14826102)
In my introductory programming class, we teach a few basic forms of chart visualization. By far, students struggle the most with Histograms. Even more frustrating, they love line plots and attempt to use them everywhere. Despite my explanations that you can almost always use histograms, and you can almost never use line plots! Yet they go with what they find more intuitive...
Re:What's so hard about histograms? by pletnes on Saturday July 22, 2017 @07:18AM (#14826599)
Depends what you're doing I'd say. In physics based modeling, which is used more in e.g. engineering, line plots are often very useful. When examining noisy real world data, not so much.