Balanced bucketing

The Quantity variable in the online_retail dataset has a very skewed distribution. That is, most individuals buy 1 to 5 items, but a small number buy close to 50. How can we better capture this type of distribution using buckets?

online_retail %>% 
    select(quant_cat) %>%
    table()

(1,6]  (6,11] (11,16] (16,21] (21,26] (26,31] (31,36] (36,41] (41,46] 
38915    6362   10646    1099    4744     295     896     208      24

Break the Quantity variable into three buckets that are balanced in terms of how many individuals are represented in each bucket.
Use table() to look at the break-up by the number of individuals.

Exercise

Balanced bucketing

Instructions