Creating a Histogram

Creating a histogram is one of the most basic statistical techniques available for quickly creating a graphical representation of sample data.  The purpose of this page is to provide you with a couple of tutorials that will help create a histogram using your own data.

The following video demonstrates how to create a histogram using Excel. 

You can use other spreadsheet programs to create histograms.  In the following video, you will see a demonstration of how to create a histogram using Google Sheets.

Creating a histogram using an alternative method.

There are a wide variety of online statistical calculators available.  Your professor might share some of these options with you in the course announcements.  

The following page provides a free histogram construction tool:

Here are the steps required to create a histogram using the tool at the link above:

1. Open your spreadsheet and copy the column of data you want to explore.
2. Paste the data into the histogram tool box and click Generate.
3. The tool will generate a histogram.  Scroll down to see the options for editing the histogram.  

The following video provides a tutorial on how to use this tool: