# How to dynamically bucket low, medium, high on prices and pick 2 per bucker **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 29, 2019, 4:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-dynamically-bucket-low-medium-high-on-prices-and-pick-2-per-bucker/197256 "2019-08-29T04:32:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gag\_Gag](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gag_gag/32/47827_2.png) [@Gag\_Gag](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gag_Gag)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 4:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-dynamically-bucket-low-medium-high-on-prices-and-pick-2-per-bucker/197256/1 "2019-08-29T04:32:45Z")
I have docs containing a price field indexed as such: > { price: 100 } > { price: 200 } > { price: 300 } The prices can be anything from 100 to 1000. Depending on a given filter, I want to bucket in low, med, high price points and pick 2 from each category for that search. Is this possible? ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-dynamically-bucket-low-medium-high-on-prices-and-pick-2-per-bucker/197256/2 "2019-08-29T07:36:29Z")
you could play around with a range aggregation, inside of that a terms aggregation on the category field with a size of 2 and inside of that a top\_hits aggregation. Another option is always to execute more than one search, but try the above first. ---
**Author:** ![Gag\_Gag](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gag_gag/32/47827_2.png) [@Gag\_Gag](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gag_Gag)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-dynamically-bucket-low-medium-high-on-prices-and-pick-2-per-bucker/197256/3 "2019-08-29T11:50:32Z")
In the range aggregation is there a way to dynamically calculate the to and from? Basically if the filtered dataset has max price 400 and min price 100 then the range should be - low: 100 to 200 medium: 200 to 300, high: 300 to 400 ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-dynamically-bucket-low-medium-high-on-prices-and-pick-2-per-bucker/197256/4 "2019-08-29T12:51:23Z")
you need to define the ranges yourself. Another approach could be to get the max and min values first and then calculate a proper histogram window out of that. ---
**Author:** ![Gag\_Gag](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gag_gag/32/47827_2.png) [@Gag\_Gag](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gag_Gag)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-dynamically-bucket-low-medium-high-on-prices-and-pick-2-per-bucker/197256/5 "2019-08-29T12:52:51Z")
But that would be two queries right? ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-dynamically-bucket-low-medium-high-on-prices-and-pick-2-per-bucker/197256/6 "2019-08-29T14:49:58Z")
yes, that would be two queries ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-dynamically-bucket-low-medium-high-on-prices-and-pick-2-per-bucker/197256/7 "2019-09-26T14:52:43Z")
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