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title: Over Time chart
description: How to use the Over Time chart, which helps identify trends and potential gaps in your data, for all time-aware projects (OTV, single series, and multiseries).

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# Over Time chart  {: #over-time-chart}

The **Over time** chart helps you identify trends and potential gaps in your data by displaying, for both the original modeling data and the derived data, how a feature changes over the primary date/time feature. It is available for all time-aware projects (OTV, single series, and multiseries). For time series, it is available for each user-configured forecast distance. See also [Understand a feature's Over Time chart](ts-leaderboard#understand-a-features-over-time-chart).

Using the page's tools, you can focus on specific time periods. Display options for OTV and single-series projects differ than those of multiseries. Note that to view the **Over time** chart you must first compute chart data. Once computed:

1. Set the chart's granularity. The resolution options are auto-detected by DataRobot. All project types allow you to set a resolution (this option is under **Additional settings** for multiseries projects).

	![](images/fot-resolution.png)

2. Toggle the histogram display on and off to see a visualization of the bins DataRobot is using for EDA1.

3. Use the date range slider below the chart to highlight a specific region of the time plot. For smaller datasets, you can drag the sliders to a selected portion. Larger data sets use block pagination.

	![](images/fot-slide.png)

4. For multiseries projects	, you can set both the forecast distance and an individual series (or average across series) to plot:

	![](images/fot-resolution-multi.png)

For time series projects, the **Data** page also provides a [Feature Lineage](ts-leaderboard#feature-lineage-tab) chart to help understand the creation process for derived features.
