How to choose bins in matplotlib histogram

Question

Can someone explain to me what \"bins\" in histogram are (the matplotlib hist function)? And assuming I need to plot the probability density function of some data, how do th

Answer 1

Bins are the number of intervals you want to divide all of your data into, such that it can be displayed as bars on a histogram. A simple method to work our how many bins are suitable is to take the square root of the total number of values in your distribution.