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Word "histogram" is wrong, it should be "graph". Histogram is something different #134

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derSchtefan opened this issue Jan 17, 2025 · 2 comments

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@derSchtefan
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Wavemon calls the time-dependent graph of the signal level a "histogram" on screen and in the code, but this is actually not correct. A histogram is a chart that plots how often a specific value (or range of values) did occur in the past, but does not display WHEN it occured.

A histogram would be for instance "amount of people in specific age groups" or "amount of people born in different months".

While this is a useful graph sometimes in signal analysis (when moving around, how OFTEN or how LONG did the signal stay in specific signal ranges), this is not what wavemon displays.

Wavemon simply displays a "graph" (specifically: a time-dependent graph). You should only write "graph".

It is a common mistake, but one that should be corrected.
Especially because an ACTUAL histogram function would actually kinda neat to have!

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grrtrr commented Jan 17, 2025

Thank you for the correction. How about history, which may have been the original meaning.

@derSchtefan
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That also works!

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