Is there any alternative to Google's Annotated Timeline Visualization API?
There's some bugs in the Annotated Timeline, and it doesn't appear they will be addressed.
Also it is a Flash based chart. A Canvas+Javascript implementation would be more portable.
The qualities that make the Annotated Timeline valuable (as opposed to every other charting library i've found so far) are:
As far as i can tell Google's Annotated Timeline is the only interactive line graph library.
While the dynamic and interactive Google Charts are actively maintained, we officially deprecated the static Google Image Charts way back in 2012. This gives us the right to turn it off without notice, which may happen soon.
Annotation charts are interactive time series line charts that support annotations. Note that the annotated timeline now automatically uses the Annotation Chart.
Dygraphs should do exactly what you want, and is a full js implementation. It's free, and already integrates with gviz (sample here), so you should barely need to change anything. It also has a bunch of other useful functionality not found on other gviz charts (like rolling average calculation).
Hope that helps.
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