use CDFs not histograms

last updated: Oct 20, 2023

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/09/02/ecdf.html

Histograms are a rightfully popular way to present data like latency, throughput, object size, and so on. Histograms avoid some of the difficulties of picking a summary statistic, or group of statistics, which is hard to do right. I think, though, that there's nearly always a better choice than histograms: the empirical cumulative distribution function (eCDF).

Found via Dan Luu on twitter, who advocates also including a PDF (Proabability Density Function wiki)

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