Question: What does the graphs in the home page represents ?

[mamarguerat]

Hello,
I've been using Maybe with detailed data since May 2024, and I was looking for statistics graphs and data over my income/spending. I couldn't understand the home page graphs.

What does the graphs in the home page represents ? What are the units ? There is no timebase for the horizontal axis, and the vertical axis has to be resolved from the numbers shown next to the graph. There is no information on hover.

As I understand these graphs, for the Income one, I had a big income a few days ago, and a smaller one recently. But the big income was over multiple days ? and the smaller one continues to happen ? For the spending graph, I understand that, approximately in the same time of the big income, I began to spend a lot. But that's not the case with my data. I spent a lot 2 days after the big income, and then I have normal spending. And the graphs I expect for this type of data are bar graphs and not line graphs.

The current graphs are hard to understand, and a graph without knowing what it represents is useless. I would suggest adding a help hover button to explain what these graphs are, what they represent, how it is calculated or other information, and maybe adding a hover on the graphs for values.

[Shpigford]

Those graphs are essentially "trendlines". They're meant to show "change" vs absolute units.

[mamarguerat]

Ok, so this means that I had an income represented with the black circle, and then I had no income until the red circle. The red circle represents a much smaller income compared the black one. And then again no income until the orange circle, and again, no income until today ?

[Shpigford]

these aren't necessarily "zeroed" graphs (where the low point = 0). would probably be helpful for us to add a timeframe indicator ("last 30 days") or something to that effect.

[mamarguerat]

I would be very nice for understanding 👍. And a timeframe picker would be great too.
As they aren't zeroed, a vertical scale might be a good idea, or the same hover popup as the main graph.

[mamarguerat]

Oh, I think understood the graphs. I take the income graph as an example. It shows a moving sum of the income for the past 30 days. Each day shown in the graph is the sum of the income for the 30 days before the day shown in the graph. That's right? This is why the big income is confusing, I received my salary a bit earlier than the past month, so for 2-3 days, the value in graph is the sum of 2 salaries, and then goes back to a single salary.
For a trend line, shouldn't this be a moving average instead of a moving sum? Edit: I don't think I should. The moving sum is interesting data for income and spending analysis