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 # Collectl2plotly
 
 Collectl2plotly is a python commandline tool, to build htmlsites with plotly diagrams from data that was collected with [collectl](http://collectl.sourceforge.net).
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 Note:
 
-Filtering is not done in the config you filter in the [options](#options) of the command.
-
-Filtering means sort out commands that are not relevant enough to be displayed in the diagrams to keep the diagramm clean.
+Filtering is not set in the config you filter with the [options](#options) of the command.
+With filtering is mean sort out commands that are not relevant enough to be displayed in the diagrams to keep the diagramm clean.
 
 #### NEEDED_VALUES
 Specifies which values are merged under which names in a dict.
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 ```
 
 ## Merger
-A merger is a function that merge values from collectl to existing values or the base value this is set in the config see [here](NEEDED_VALUES). 
+A merger is a function that merge values from collectl to a existing value or a base value what is set in the config see [here](NEEDED_VALUES). 
 
 It is also used to format and convert the values from collectl.