Re:Histo.c – histograms in the terminal for static or stream...
by k2enemy on Thursday February 07, 2013 @08:33AM
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Sorry if I am just being slow this morning, but how can a histogram have a negative value?
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Re:Histo.c – histograms in the terminal for static or stream...
by hagios on Thursday February 07, 2013 @10:44AM
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At the point where you're allowing negative values, 'histogram' is probably a misnomer. Allowing for negative values lets you track things like delta, jerk, and so on, which can in turn reveal interesting data which isn't immediately obvious otherwise.
Re:Histo.c – histograms in the terminal for static or stream...
by morpher on Thursday February 07, 2013 @11:47AM
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It looks like this tool doesn't actually calculate a histogram of the data, but simply plots a bar plot of integral data.
So, a negative value means whatever it means in your data.