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by Bootvis 1607 days ago
It helps in quickly improving your understanding of the data by being able to answer simple but important questions quicker. In this contrived example I would want to know:

- How many events by type

- When did they happen

- Are there any breaks in the count, why?

- Some statistics on these events like average, min, max

and so on. Terseness helps me in doing this fast.