Visualizing time series is useful to support discovery of relations and patterns in financial, genomic, medical and other
applications. Often, measurements are equally spaced over time. We discuss the challenges of unevenly-spaced time series and
present fourrepresentationmethods: sampled events, aggregated sampled events, event index and interleaved event index. We
developed these methods while studying eBay auction data with TimeSearcher. We describe the advantages, disadvantages, choices
for algorithms and parameters, and compare the different methods for different tasks. Interaction issues such as screen resolution,
response time for dynamic queries, and learnability are governed by these decisions.