Understanding the Compare to Previous Feature in Mixpanel

Hi fellow Mixpanel users. I am trying to understand “Compare to previous” feature in Mixpanel. Do I compare to an average during the previous 30 days or to a single day value 30 days ago? Here i select an event that happened today hour by hour and compare it to a “previous 30 days”. Then this doted line is an average of hours for the last 30 days, or it is hour by hour a day 30 days go compared to today? Thank you for your help! 🙂

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Thena
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Hi Artyom- Julianne from Mixpanel Support here! You can hover over a specific data point to see the time period that is being compared to. With the report set up from the screenshot, the feature will be comparing a specific hours value to the value for the same hour, 30 days ago. This means the line is an hour by hour of the values 30 days ago. Inline Attachment: image.png
Artyom T.
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Hi Julianne. Thank you, it is quite clear now. Do you know if Mixpanel is planning to implement comparison to averages: last 30 days average, last 3 months and last year average? Statistically it is more interesting to compare to averages rather than to a specific days 30 days or 3 months ago.
Thena
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Happy to help! That currently isn't on the roadmap, but it would be a great feature to develop! I highly recommend submitting your use case and request for this feature via the 'Submit Feedback' form (under the ? menu). This will flag your use case and support of the feature to the Product team. They use the logged gaps to develop future releases and improvements of the product.