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.. _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 altair.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 altair.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 altair.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.
