# How to plot ~10 billion datapoint time series efficiently?

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**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** question, plotting, diffeq\
**Created:** [May 18, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-plot-10-billion-datapoint-time-series-efficiently/81228 "2022-05-18T01:09:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 9:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-plot-10-billion-datapoint-time-series-efficiently/81228/9 "2022-05-18T09:19:09Z")

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Please check [this GR solution](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-do-digital-phosphor-type-of-plots-for-time-series-data/56490/12), using `shade()` to plot a large 1D time series.

Or [this other GR example](https://github.com/jheinen/GR.jl/blob/master/examples/shade_ex.jl) using `shadepoints()`. By using `Float32` , more than 1 billion points can be processed in seconds:

 ![GR_shadepoints_1billion_points](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/e/7/e761ef225d3e7a29f1a464ac187a7dc6a41b7a39.jpeg)

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