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 This creates a stacked area chart of a single **discrete** property such as an on/off or a stopped/starting/running/stopping value. This creates a stacked area chart of a single **discrete** property such as an on/off or a stopped/starting/running/stopping value.
  
-This style of report tries to provide both an ideal of **how much** of the time an asset was in a particular state, while at the same time giving some insight into **when** these states happened.+This style of report tries to answer two questions at the same time - **how much** of the time an asset was in a particular state, and **when** these states happened.
  
-You can provide all of this information for short periods of time using bar-charts, but this area visualisation works well over longer time-frames.+It's less accurate than horizontal status-charts would be, but it's extremely effective when reporting on long periods of time, where the detail on status-charts can be lost.
  
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