smolnar82 commented on issue #163: KNOX-2052 - KnoxShellTable mean, median, and mode methods URL: https://github.com/apache/knox/pull/163#issuecomment-539393241 > > Another idea: once you added `long` support you may consider `Date` or `Timestamp` columns using `getTime()`. What do you think? > > @smolnar82 I could see this being useful with finding `mode,` but not quite sure how the rest of the methods here would lend themselves to a date/timestamp. `Max` and `min` could also be useful but I would think that would be more of `sort` thing where you would want the table itself displayed in order with max/min on respective ends of the table. Are there any specific use cases you had in mind? This might be going over my head. Filing a separate JIRA might be a good idea for this. I believe selecting the `min` and `max` date/timestamp is very useful and frequently used in applications dealing with those data types (e.g. give me the last time John logged in). It's true that the same can be achieved with sorting (ascending/descending) and selecting the first element from the result. I'll create a new JIRA.
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