import pandas as pd import matplotlib.pyplot as plt def distribution_of_differences(df, column_name): # Check if the column exists in the DataFrame if column_name not in df.columns: raise ValueError(f"The column '{column_name}' does not exist in the DataFrame.") # Calculate differences between consecutive rows for the specified column differences = df[column_name].diff().abs() # The first element of differences will be NaN since there's no previous element for the first row differences = differences.dropna() # Remove NaN values return differences def plot_histogram(data_series, bins=10, title="Distribution of Absolute Differences"): plt.figure(figsize=(8, 4)) # Set the figure size for better readability plt.hist(data_series, bins=bins, color='blue', alpha=0.7, edgecolor='black') plt.title(title) plt.xlabel('Absolute Difference') plt.ylabel('Frequency') plt.grid(True) plt.show()