Thanks for the comment. I strongly agree that smoothing is not always beneficial and that the users should be informed and have control of the amount of the smo

Thanks for the comment. I strongly agree that smoothing is not always beneficial and that the users should be informed and have control of the amount of the smoothing that is being applied to their plots. We developed ASAP with the intend to complement, instead of replacing the raw plots. We view ASAP more as a "smart default" - if you were to expose a slide bar of different moving average window sizes that users could apply to their visualizations, where should a reasonable default be on that slide bar? In addition, ASAP does not always choose to smooth the visualizations. In some cases (e.g. Figure C.1 in the arXiv paper) where the raw plots already have a few well-defined outlying regions and smoothing would only decrease the extent of such deviations, ASAP leaves the visualization unsmoothed.