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what type of chart can best present bit string

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By Tim Strong 1 - Friday, May 13, 2011

Hello

we have some data of bit string data type and we want to present those those data in a chart so that we can see some trend pattern of those data of bit string data type at a time line.

Any suggestion about the best approach to do this?  What type of chart can best present those bit string data at a time line

Thanks.

 
By Nevron Support - Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Hi Tim,

Are these bit strings variable length and is there any upper limit for the bit string length? Is it possible for you to post some sample data?
By Tim Strong 1 - Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Hello, there is upper limit for the length of bit string.  The maximum length can not be over 26.

eg 1:     there are four bits in this example. following are data sample at four different time intervals

1001   at time one

1101    at time two

1111    at time three

1000    at time four

 

eg 2:   there are 7 bits in this example and following are data sample at five different time intervals

1100100  at time one

1000111 at time two

1001011 at time three

1111101 at time four

1001011 at time five

thank you

 
By Nevron Support - Thursday, May 19, 2011

Hi Tim,

There are different ways to display this kind of data, so maybe it depends on what kind of pattern or trend you will be looking for. For example you can use some sort of stacked bar where each stack column represents a single bit array and each data point represents one bit.

Alternatively, you can convert the bit arrays to integer values and display them in a bar or line chart. This way individual bits won't be visible but maybe the values can give some information.