Thinking about an experiment we re running right now but tak

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Thinking about an experiment we re running right now but take this idea with a grain of salt It would be extremely interesting to see a histogram of how many times each user generates a metric We have a number of exercises completed metric where the `metric count user count` is something like 5000 500 Would love to see a graph when I hover over that metric that shows me if the distribution is normal skewed or just has a few outliers skewing the count say 1 user is responsible for 1000 activities pulling up the average for everyone else This is definitely possible in our data warehouse mixpanel but would be interesting to have it in the platform

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

That s an interesting idea We support metric caps right now where you can set a max value any single user can have That basically stops huge outliers from screwing up results but it still doesn t let you visualize the distribution

future-teacher-7046 · Answer

We ve talked about adding histograms to the metric overview pages but not in the context of an experiment

thankful-scientist-83252 · Answer

What s useful about the experiment context is it respects all the targeting condition

thankful-scientist-83252 · Answer

the metric caps are certainly useful but they force you to know guess what would be an unreasonable value Also a visualization would give you a sense of skew to answer the question of is this driven by power users which is always a nagging thought for these count metrics