ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Graphical time warping

Okay kiddo, have you ever seen a movie where the characters fast-forward or slow down time? That's kind of like what graphical time warping is. It's a way to change how we look at data that changes over time, like a graph that shows how much money someone makes each year.

Sometimes, the data we're looking at might have some parts that go really fast and other parts that go really slow. Just like in a movie, we might want to slow down or speed up certain parts to see them more clearly.

Graphical time warping is like a magic tool that lets us do that. We can stretch or compress certain parts of the graph so that they fit our needs. For example, if we want to look at the details of a certain part of the graph, we can slow it down so that we can see it more clearly. Or if we just want a quick overview of the whole graph, we can speed it up so that we can get the big picture.

Overall, graphical time warping is just a fancy way of saying that we can edit a graph to make it easier to understand. It's like using special effects in a movie to make it more exciting or easier to watch.