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Entity state plot

I'm looking for a simple way to replicate this plot. I'm stumped. Colors correspond to different entity states (e.g. active, idle, etc.). Thanks.

 

Re: Entity state plot

I think I worked on a similar challenge with user hogi at Discovery Manchester. Being an advanced user, he didn't need a simple approach, so this might not qualify for your user, but here's a quick mock-up of the idea. It uses stacked bars of durations. The keys are:

• compute duration values to stack, possibly including a special artificial first duration to set the start time
• give each transition a unique ID ordered by start time, (if not unique, they'll get merged when stacking), and put it in Overlay
• put the state variable in the color role

Another approach is to use a scatterplot with a tall rectangle marker and including enough repeated data values to fill the view. Here's one I did 10 years ago where there is one marker per day.

 

Re: Entity state plot

Thank you, @XanGregg! Exactly what I was looking for.