# Histograms in Tableau | Tableau Charts

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2023-01-31
- **Format:** Video · 3 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation
- **Tools:** Tableau (bins, filters, pages)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/histograms-in-tableau-charts-in-2-minutes
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THJcN4qr00U

I show you how to build a histogram in Tableau in about two minutes using World Health Organization life expectancy data. I cover creating bins, switching between continuous and discrete fields for filtering, and adding context with colour and the pages shelf for animated data storytelling.

## Key takeaways

- Create a histogram by making a bin to group continuous values into buckets, then dragging that bin onto columns with the record count
- Convert a continuous year field to discrete so you can filter to an individual year rather than a range
- Add a second bin (such as adult mortality in buckets of 50) onto colour to reveal its relationship with life expectancy
- Move a filter onto the Pages shelf to play through years and animate the story of how mortality affects life expectancy

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/histograms-in-tableau-charts-in-2-minutes

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