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[Question #160053]: Should I always smooth data using movingAverage?

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From: François Beausoleil <question160053@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:50:57 -0000
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New question #160053 on Graphite:
https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/160053

It's real-life data, thus it's noisy and sometimes hard to read. Should I always smooth it out using a moving average, or would summarize be better in this case? I don't really understand the difference between both anyways. The biggest difference seems to be one is tied to time, while the other one is tied to actual number of points.

When I get a clear answer, I can start expanding http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/url-api.html

Thanks!
François

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