:orphan: :html_theme.sidebar_secondary.remove: .. This document is auto-generated by the altair-gallery extension. Do not modify directly. .. _gallery_simple_histogram: Simple Histogram ---------------- This example shows how to make a basic histogram, based on the vega-lite docs https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/histogram.html .. altair-plot:: :remove-code: import altair as alt from vega_datasets import data source = data.movies.url alt.Chart(source).mark_bar().encode( alt.X("IMDB_Rating:Q", bin=True), y='count()', ) # No channel encoding options are specified in this chart # so the code is the same as for the method-based syntax. .. tab-set:: .. tab-item:: Method syntax :sync: method .. code:: python import altair as alt from vega_datasets import data source = data.movies.url alt.Chart(source).mark_bar().encode( alt.X("IMDB_Rating:Q", bin=True), y='count()', ) .. tab-item:: Attribute syntax :sync: attribute .. code:: python import altair as alt from vega_datasets import data source = data.movies.url alt.Chart(source).mark_bar().encode( alt.X("IMDB_Rating:Q", bin=True), y='count()', ) # No channel encoding options are specified in this chart # so the code is the same as for the method-based syntax.