TODAY’S DATA LENS

Same data. Different bins. Different story.

Square soft-grey, black and red Today’s Data Lens card comparing the same 24 illustrative values in narrow and wide histogram bins, showing how bin width changes the visible shape.

Observation

Histograms group observations into bins. Change the bin width and the visible shape can change too: peaks may sharpen, merge or disappear—even when the observations themselves do not move.

The data stayed put. The buckets did the editing.