How to Know If Your Baseline Is Ready
Check whether your baseline is ready for comparisons before asking Hydrogen for answers.
Enough normal days
You need repeated days before a comparison can become more than a guess.
Do not overread one day
A single unusual day should not decide whether the baseline is ready.
Start asking comparisons
When ready, Hydrogen can compare real changes instead of filling gaps.
You need enough stable data, not perfect data
Readiness is practical. The baseline should be strong enough to compare, while still improving over time.
- Sample readiness
- 78%
- Enough to ask comparison questions.
- Normal days
- 8
- Repeated workdays in the baseline.
- Risk flag
- Low
- No single day dominates the pattern.
Match the question to the baseline quality
The same data can be useful or misleading depending on how strong a claim you ask it to support.
- You have several normal workdays, not only one long session.
- Reliable minutes are strong enough for the windows you want to compare.
- No single interrupted day explains the whole pattern.
- You can ask a specific comparison question instead of a vague summary.
Quick answers
It is ready when you have enough normal workdays to compare one period against another without relying on a single noisy day.
Uneven data is still useful as context, but you should treat strong conclusions as provisional.
No. Use a practical threshold, then improve the baseline over time.
Track a few normal workdays
Build a baseline on Windows, then compare periods once the data is stable enough to trust.