The image above is a histogram we created and the visualization I am providing from Lab 3. The visualization above is a histogram as previously stated and captioned in the key. The y-axis measures the frequency of bales occurring and the x-axis measures the weights of the bales. The mean(total_bales) is 490.710588235294 and median(total_bales) is 490. As shown in the visualization there is a high frequency of bales with a weight around the 500 mark. The histogram above can be described as having a symmetrical distribution due to the rise and fall of frequencies towards the middle and is quite symmetrical.
The above is an example of symmetrical distribution and is comparable to the visualization created in my lab. I bring up the mean and median of the bales because they are very close together numerically. A similar mean and median is indicative of a symmetrical distribution. So not only does the histogram look symmetrical the mean and median numbers are similar which supports the symmetrical distribution.
We produced a histogram to better understand the data we had on the bales. The vector of bales contained lots of numbers and we thought that transferring that into a histogram along with calculating the mean and median would help us better understand the way in which the bales were distributed. Through this exploratory data analysis we were able to see what weights the bales most frequently came in.
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