That's a lot of variables to try and visualise in one go. What about creating a synthetic metric of some sort that combines the 3 that you've got ? (Mem * Insert * find) is possibly the simplest. But that will depend on what you're trying to measure. Then you can draw a 3d plot for each value of P1 showing p2:p3:metric. That's a lot of plots, but it might tell you something (or not!)

I've used synthetic metrics and found them to be quite useful, but you do need to educate your users that the absolute values are meaningless and only the relative difference has any sort significant.

In reply to Re: [OT] Data visualisation by RichardK
in thread [OT] Data visualisation by BrowserUk

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