Apologies if my earlier words were confusing, I was actually asking the chart to the very similar to your first chart (so just one line in it) but with 'x-axis' data being the real dates of let's say May 1st, May 2nd, May 5th, May 6th, May 7th to all the way to May 14th right now. That way it is very similar to the first chart except that instead of showing 10, 20, 30 days in the 'x-axis' it will show the actual application received date basis the PER being given to the applications. The 'y-axis' can be kept as the # of PERs (i.e. reflecting # of completed applications) as in your first chart. And you can very well keep the first chart and this new chart, side by side actually.
When we do that my guess is it might flatten the blue line of the latter chart from 491 to 555 (as these are not that many increments in PER applications vis-à-vis the # of application received day(s)) and might steepen the incline for 887 to 1891 as these should represent the bulk of May 7th and near-by cases (or may be May 8th to May 12th cases as your latter chart depicts).
One thing I would also suggest doing is let's say CIC updated data on its site on this Monday (i.e. 25 Aug 2014) then for all practical purposes please take the PER update for until last Friday only. Do not include the new week's data if the update was made on Monday / Tuesday of the week by CIC. This part is tricky though, we can never tell 100% correctly what cut-off date they use for an update (I sometimes have a feeling they use this cut-off date to their advantage, as the situation calls for it i.e. if their pipeline for the weekly update is healthy they may hold back on some almost completed cases and not show that to the current week, rather save it for next week's update and vice-versa).
You made me realize what a lousy job I did of explaining it in my below post! ;D Hopefully it is clear now - please do let me know in case you have a follow-up question. Thanks, again!
My take is that the daily global #s should be approximately proportionate to the below (though, of course higher than these that I have taken from the SS sheet - app. by received date and status):
01-05-14 - 21
02-05-14 - 28
05-05-14 - 57
06-05-14 - 40
07-05-14 - 180
08-05-14 - 86
09-05-14 - 73
12-05-14 - 90
13-05-14 - 29
14-05-14 - 85
15-05-14 - 32
16-05-14 - 27
