Possible to create such timeline chart?

[shuby_gupta]

Hi all,

Is it possible to create such a timeline chart:
http://bes.fayette.k12.il.us/excel/Timelines/create-a-timeline_files/Timeline-for-Benjamin-Franklin.gif
using Google charts? Basically I have a table of 2 columns. One of
them has dates and other has text. Is it possible to chart such data?
Please help. Thanks a lot in advance.

Shubham

[KeithB]

Short answer: no

Long answer: you can try to get close (http://tinyurl.com/y8qym9e) but
with the amount of text you're looking at it probably wouldn't look
very nice.

You can try using the Annotated Time Line chart from the Google
Visualization API, but your data is just dates and text so you'd be
looking at a straight line...

Cheers,
K

[Sam Dutton]

As per the OP's question, Is there any plan for Google Charts to support timeline or Gantt charts?  I can't find anything in the documentation.

In my case, I'd like to display a series of event times (not time intervals) in milliseconds, with labels, a bit like this:

|  eventFoo

  |  eventBar
        |  eventFooBar

'               '              '

0           500         1000

I think think of ways to hack this, for example:

http://www.designinginteractive.com/code/how-to-build-a-gantt-chart-with-the-google-charts-api/

...but it would be nice to be able to code something like this 'natively'.

Sam

[duniyadnd]

For timeline, you could check out http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/ - it's free and got tons of features

For gannt charts - surprisingly that's a trick I had to use in Excel frequently a few years back.

[Sam Dutton]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I've tried the SIMILE widgets -- they're great, but more complex than what I need, and I found the documentation quite hard to follow (though that might just be me!)

Sam

On 14 July 2011 22:11, duniyadnd <uman...@gmail.com> wrote:

For timeline, you could check out http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/ - it's free and got tons of features

For gannt charts - surprisingly that's a trick I had to use in Excel frequently a few years back.

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