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Histogram support

Open cdcseacave opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

If not hard to implement, it would be really useful to be able to display the histogram of an array. For ex for a selected vector, the user selects histogram and inputs the range and bin size. Or the user selects to vectors, one defining the data and the other the bins.

Great tool, thank you!

cdcseacave avatar Oct 09 '19 07:10 cdcseacave

I'm not sure whether statistical (or any other) analysis of the data is in the scope of this extension. While I agree this could be convenient for you and maybe some other users, in general there are many ways of transforming and analyzing data. General-purpose extension like this would not cover all of them and if I decided to support "most common ones" it wouldn't be clear which ones should it be and how many because it'd depend on the user's domain. For now I'm leaning towards forcing the user to analyse data in the program (e.g. create histogram) and only display it with this extension. But this is not a strong opinion. So I'll leave it as an open question.

awulkiew avatar Oct 09 '19 11:10 awulkiew

@cdcseacave You should have a look at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RodneyThomson.ArrayPlotter and, since it's actively developed, perhaps contact its author with suggestion of the histogram feature. I think your request belongs to that extension better.

mloskot avatar Oct 09 '19 12:10 mloskot