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Alternative to Google Visualization's Annotated Timeline? (graphing library)

Is there any alternative to Google's Annotated Timeline Visualization API?

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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:

  • supports multiple lines
  • zooming; to drill in and out of a date range
  • panning back and forth through time
  • supports thousands of data points
  • ability to be fed new data on the fly

As far as i can tell Google's Annotated Timeline is the only interactive line graph library.

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Ian Boyd Avatar asked Jul 21 '11 22:07

Ian Boyd


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1 Answers

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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oli Avatar answered Sep 29 '22 15:09

oli