Bucket Sort explained with animations and example | Full implementation and code

Bucket Sort is a sorting algorithm that gives you a faster time complexity but puts some limitations on the input set that you are providing. The basic idea of Bucket Sort is based on the divide and conquer algorithmic paradigm. You divide the array into smaller buckets, sort them individually and then conquer them. Watch the video to see a live demo of what happens behind the scenes and then work along with me to do a dry-run.

00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Where do you use Bucket Sort?
02:50 - Live Demo of Bucket Sort
07:15 - Dry-run of code
12:15 - Final Thoughts

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[Yohelloworld]

Bhaiya your voice is so calming !! literally feels like to see till the very end of the video everytime!

[prayushgiri]

I am curious about the hash function, which decides in what bucket the element should go to...

[srishti]

The only regret after watching his videos is that why doesn't we have his videos for all the dsa concepts😢

[kainaatmakhani]

Very informative lecture. Mujhe padne mein bht maza aaya.

[tsvmanojturlapati]

God Bless You Bro.Want more like this. Do more on Webdevlopment

[NicoletteHickly]

This was so helpful, thank you so much

[aumuamuanakakara]

thank you so much!! finally understood!

[HumamNaveed-wsin]

How are we finding the number of actual buckets required like we are having 5 buckets, We do find the range as 20 so the number would be 5 in each pf the buckets but how we find the actual buckets

[myyfstz]

thanks, very clear explanation indeed

[babushaikh]

Excellent Explanation .
teaching using techology

[diegojb]

Thank you for the explanation and the nice edition of the video!

[sarthakyadav]

Thanks bro your explanation was very nice 🙌🙌
Keep it up👍

[MadpolygonDEV]

whats the way to hash the values to the correct buckets? just num/bucketcount? So number 4 would go in bucket 0 (assuming 5 buckets and range of 20) and 5 would go in bucket 1 and so on? However that would make it so bucket 1 is containing 1-4 and 5-9 and so on. Thank you

[kainaatmakhani]

Sir you have made the mistake you have written 21, 22, 22, 24. In last bucket the values will be 21, 21, 22, 24.

[contentshark]

What specific sorting teqnique is used here other than creating some buckets....this doesnt emphasize on any specific sorting teqnique though the name is bucketsort

[xofrio]

Uhm, could you explain for me two simple things: number_of_buckets and bucket_range?
The thing is, that square root of (20) for me is 4 point something which is 4.
And 20 / 4 equals to 5.
So there will be 4 buckets: 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 15-20.
How should I fix the formula for either number_of_buckets or bucket_range?

I'm using c++ and it's strange for me that in Java ceil((double) 20 / 5) is not equal to 4 point nothing.
And yep, I'm aware of IEEE-754, but in this particular case it gives me 4, not 4.something.
I do understand that the upper bound for the last bucket should be a bit greater than the maximum value, but what should be the right formula?
Is static_cast<int>((range / number_of_buckets)) + 1 correct?

[AmitKumar-syvp]

perfect, and u should have to take a better mic..that's all, thanks dude

[sandhyaavasthi]

Which algorithm is used to sort element in the buckets

[yogeshk]

some mistakes are there in the tutorial