Dynamic Binning

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Hello All,

I retired in 2022. Throughout my career, I’ve developed user interfaces for data visualization. I’d like to contribute a few ideas from past projects that may help others.

This notebook implements dynamic binning. For categorical data, it provides an interactive “Other” bin to combine the smaller categories.
https://observablehq.com/@heman/bin

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Binning is a problem that doesn’t have one right answer. So, it’s best to let the users explore. With modern technology, we can enable them.

Thanks for your comments and suggestions!

Heman.

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I’ve seen dynamic binning for histograms before, but dynamic binning of categorical data with a reactive “Other” category is a new idea to me and very cool.

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Thank you! I have not previously seen dynamic categorical binning either. It seems like it must have been done, though; it’s useful in so many data sets.