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Fusion 5.10
    Fusion 5.10

    Histogram (hist)

    Numeric histograms can be created using the hist function. The hist function takes three parameters:

    1. The numeric field to create the histogram from.

    2. The number of bins in the histogram.

    3. The sample size to create the histogram from.

    Sample syntax

    select hist(sepal_length_d, 5, 150) as hist_mean,
       hist_prob,
       hist_cum_prob,
       hist_count
from iris
       where species_s = ‘setosa’

    Result set

    The result set from the histogram will contain one row for each histogram bin. The random sample for the histogram will be drawn from the results that match the WHERE clause in the SQL query. If no WHERE clause is provided, the samples will be drawn from the full data set. The hist function returns the mean of each bin. There are three additional fields that can be selected when the hist function is used:

    • hist_count : the number of results within each bin.

    • hist_prob: the probability of the bin, or the percentage of records within each bin.

    • hist_cum_prob: the cumulative probability of each bin.

    Sample result set shown in Apache Zeppelin Table:

    Sample result set

    Visualization

    Histograms can be visualized by plotting the bin means on the x-axis and either the hist_count, hist_prob or hist_cum_prob on the y-axis.

    The example below shows a bar chart of the bin means and hist_count in Apache Zeppelin:

    bin means and hist_count