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[Question #193830]: Can Graphite plot distributions of variables?

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From: Mike Anderson <question193830@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:55:40 -0000
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New question #193830 on Graphite:
https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/193830

Rather than have time on the x-axis with the value of something on the y-axis, can Graphite plot a histogram that shows the distribution of values?

An example: lets say I record the age of every person entering my amusement park along with a timestamp of when they entered.
Now, I want to see the distribution of ages for people who came during the week Mon thru Fri.  This would be a histogram with age along the x-axis and the y-axis value would actually be "number of people of this particular age".

Can graphite make such plots - and if not currently, would it be possible to extend graphite to be able to do that?  Or is graphite not well suited to store such information?

I might be interested in contributing to the effort to make these kinds of plots.

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