Check for categorical data to histogram #5540
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Addresses hvplot/#998 by providing an error message if the user tries to create a
histogram
from categorical data.Before the user would get the error message
numpy.core._exceptions._UFuncNoLoopError: ufunc 'multiply' did not contain a loop with signature matching types (dtype('<U1'), dtype('float64')) -> None
This is not an error message that a new user to python and plotting would be able to make sense of. It takes a long time to realize that theoretically a histogram is for numerical data only. For example users can find plotly express examples of creating "histograms" from categorical data. In their documentation its the second example you see. I think they realized this is a very common use case.