Are there functions to retrieve the histogram counts of a Series in pandas?

Question

There is a method to plot Series histograms, but is there a function to retrieve the histogram counts to do further calculations on top of it?

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Answer 1

If you know the number of bins you want, you can use pandas' cut function, which is now accessible via value_counts. Using the same random example:

s = pd.Series(np.random.randn(100))
s.value_counts(bins=5)

Out[55]: 
(-0.512, 0.311]     40
(0.311, 1.133]      25
(-1.335, -0.512]    14
(1.133, 1.956]      13
(-2.161, -1.335]     8