Unfortunately, the weight of dough, while recorded in an Excel Workbook, is in a text field in pounds and ounces and it would take longer than I would care to spend on the matter to convert it to the sort of numeric field that could be used to create and post a histogram illustrating the weight distribution.
Which illustrates the need to be clear about the uses to which one's data is to be put before deciding on a format, that in this case text reflecting the use of an old fashioned balance scales with a set of imperial weights, rather than a number to be put into a graphics tool. Expensive to put right afterwards.
The scales in question do not have a maker's mark and the image above, from Pinterest, is the best that google could come up with. Rather scruffier looking than our own scales - of provenance unknown - but it does give the general idea.
PS: these scales are described as 'Antique Balance Scale, White Cast Iron Scale, F.J. Thornton & Co., England'. With, as it happens, 'Thornton' being both the name of the housing estate on which I lived as a child and the name of a manufacturer of a very good line of drawing instruments (from the days when architects and such like used compasses and pens rather than point and click) and slide rules and I still have my (two sided) Thornton slide rule as a memento of those early days. Clearly a lot of these Thorntons about.
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