Here is another real life example. Everyday our local authority publishes the updated pair of numbers (coroona infections vs deaths) on their webpage, even on weekends. Plotting the data with ListPlot[] visualizes the course of the numbers, with the x-axis representing the day number.
mytown = {
(*Mon,day1*){864,430},{921,464},{981,496},{1082,556},{1156,603},{1214,634},{1260,652}
};
ListPlot[{ mytown[[All,1]], mytown[[All,2]] }]
Day after day you collect the data from week2 but notice that for Friday and Saturday the authority didn't publish any data. You want ListPlot[] to plot an invisible data point for day12 and day13, so that the overall imaginary curve is still intact, not falsified. You don't want to substitute {0,0} for either day, because that would be amateurish. Again, as a beginner, you would think that good candidates to start with are Missing, None, Invisible, Undefined, Null, Nothing, Empty, Removed, Gone, Exclusions, Absent, Blank, Placeholder. However, the correct vocab item to substitute here in order to get the desired effect is Indeterminate.
mytown = {
(*Mon,day1*){864,430},{921,464},{981,496},{1082,556},{1156,603},{1214,634},{1260,652}
,(*Mon,day8*){1273,659},{1296,675},{1368,707},{1427,738},(*day12*){Indeterminate,Indeterminate},(*Sat*){Indeterminate,Indeterminate},(*Sun*){1532,777}
};
ListPlot[{ mytown[[All,1]], mytown[[All,2]] }]
I've been observing the #flattenthecurve of our town area, manually collecting the daily numbers everyday. When the publisher skipped some days, i was reminded of this thread to pick the appropriate Wolfram L vocab item to insert in my data set, instead of inserting {0,0}. I wasn't sure which one to pick and had to try various 2213 ones myself!