title: Are there functions to retrieve the histogram counts of a Series in pandas?
body: <p>There is a method to <strong>plot</strong> Series histograms, but is there a function to retrieve the histogram counts to do further calculations on top of it? </p>
  
  <p>I keep using numpy's functions to do this and converting the result to a DataFrame or Series when I need this. It would be nice to stay with pandas objects the whole time. </p>