October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1159 pages
26h 10m
English
Histograms, though similar in appearance to bar charts, are used to display the frequency of data items in relation to other items within the dataset. Each of the following examples using GRAL will use the DataTable class to initially hold the data to be displayed. In this example, we will read data from a sample file called AgeofMarriage.csv. This comma-separated file holds a list of ages at which people were first married.
We will create a new class, called HistogramExample, which extends the JFrame class and contains the following code within its constructor. We first create a DataReader object to specify that the data is in CSV format. We then use a try-catch block to handle IO exceptions and call the DataReader class's ...