When I talk or write about benchmarking, a repeated question I get asked is how to make the graphs. For some of those graphs, check the links below.

https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/lepeterborosrulez/ http://www.percona.com/blog/2014/08/12/benchmarking-exflash-with-sysbench-fileio/

In this talk, I show how to make those graphs with R and ggplot2, and how to prepare the benchmarking data for that.