How to create a histogram smart

Question

I need to make a histogram of employees in firms across the country. My goal is to examine the extreme observations and there is of course a lot in the beginning and very few in the end so I can't figure out how to make one histogram give a clear vision of both how large the extremes are and how many there are in the absolute beginning.

My best idea so far has been to just divide the dataset into two, but that surely can't be the best way. What are your ideas?

I have SAS 9.2.

Answer 1

If there is a big gap between the bulk of the data and the extremes I would suggest using a uniform bin size based on the giving an appropriate shape to the first part. You may then have many empty bins until you get to the outliers and then they will show up in the last bin or last few bins. If the scale makes ot difficult to fit on one graph do a cut out of a range of numbers where no data exists and then show the "outlier" bin(s).