[Bioperl-l] About binning data for histograms

[Sendu Bala]

Abhishek Pratap wrote:
> I am using Chart::Gnuplot for this but I am not able to figure out how
> to bin the data points to fit nicely on a screen. Is there any
> smart/quick method to do this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histogram#Number_of_bins_and_width

Like it says, it depends on the data, but it's worth trying them out to 
see if one of them gives you anything sensible.