Tag: time-maps
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Comparing the incomparable — expanding the time map concept
We are surrounded by discrete events: posts and comments, purchases from the online store, page visits are all examples of discrete events. Some of these events happen periodically; others happen sporadically. Some happen once in a while; others are generated every microsecond. There are many ways to visualise such streams, the most naive one being a one-dimensional plot in which events are placed on a time axis, as demonstrated in the figure below for three simple cases.