Let me go straight to the point, as I am ashame of even asking this but, how do I bin values in vega-lite to make a histogram ?
I did look at the examples flourishing on vega and vega-lite’ pages and at the documentation, using basic tables or the car dataset. I can reproduce those examples. The difference is that in my case I have (to simplify) ids associated with timestamps (unit s). In d3 or python, I can easily do a value_counts() on any round value of the timestamps and display the number of ids in that time interval, but how do I do that in vega lite ?
For example how do I bin the ids per hours to show the total number of ids hour per hour ?
This is a bit hard to answer without seeing the format of your data or knowing what you have tried. Is there a minimal example notebook that you can share? I guess you already know about this page of the vega-lite documentation https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/docs/bin.html
Thank you for your comment bgchen. I agree my question is very malformed. Yes I know about this page you point to, although I need to go slowly and take time to learn another way of doing things…
Thank you Domoritz… I think It will be ok for the binned histogram. the crossfilter vega example is putting me on the good track.
But I have another question… Is there a way to get a d3 export from the vega or vega-lite specifications ? That would be useful to learn more of d3 by reading its code for things we are able to do in vega-lite. For me I would use that to get more insights on d3’s handling of event based on signal specification.