STEP BY STEP GUIDE OF MAKING HISTOGRAMS OF GROUPED DATA WITH GEOGEBRA

(without typing/rearranging/grouping data!)

By Constantinos Koudounas
1. Copy the data from the textbook pdf (this example is at page 500 of the y9 textbook)

2. Paste the data in a Word or notepad window.

3. Note that the data is presented in two groups; You can verify this if from Words
Home tab, you click the

icon:

4. We have to make the data appear as one group of numbers, so press the delete key
after clicking on the right of number 29. The data will appear now as follows:

5. Now copy all data and paste it into Excel:

6. All data has been copied into a single cell. Change to the Data ribbon, and select

7. Choose the delimited option:

Then tick the boxes as follows and click Finish:

8. Now we have one number per cell. Select and copy the whole line. (Click on the 1
on the left and press ctrl+c).

9. Start GeoGebra and select View Spreadsheet. Paste the data into the first cell.
Select all data again, by left clicking on number 1:

10. Click the One variable Analysis icon:

11. Click Analyse

12. Heres the histogram!

13. There is more to it! Click the

icon, to adjust some settings.

14. Tick the Select classes manually and Frequency table boxes.

15. Since there are no data in the first class, change the start value to 5 and the width
to 5 (you can change these values to instantaneously change the intervals!). The
frequency table is updated too!

16. You may also get the frequency polygon, by ticking the relative box.

17. Is that all? No! You can get a bunch of statistical info about your data set, if you click
the Show statistics icon.

Using the right column, you can also exclude some numbers of your data set (e.g. the
outliers).

18. Export the histogram to clipboard or to the graphics view by clicking the
the graphics view, you may add titles, labels, change colours etc.

icon. In

The process is easier than it seems. Once you get familiar, you will be able to work it out
within a minute, guaranteed! Needless to highlight that the above method minimises
errors related to typing/copying/sorting large sequences of numbers!
Enjoy!

Bonus: Instead of a histogram, you can get also other types of statistical
representation, such a stem-and-leaf plot, or a box plot.