I can’t find an appropriate filter to generate a 1D histogram from a vtkTable. There are classes to generate 2D histograms from images etc. I also found vtkmHistogram but when I build against the required variables then my application takes 2 minutes to start up.
I had a quick look; it appears that this is exactly the kind of class I would like to have. It also does not appear to depend on any other paraview specific classes, so I would support that vtkExtractHistogram and vtkPExtractHistogram should be moved into the vtk project.