Time series?

[blblack]

My top feature request would be native support for time-series data.
Mostly what this means (the "hard" part) is that one should be able to
supply the x-axis values as some sort of standard timestamp (seconds
since the epoch like *nix, or ISO-8601, etc), and regardless of
whether these values are evenly spaced, or span an hour, a month, or a
decade, the chart engine heuristically picks reasonable tickmarks
indicating date and/or time. It's also useful to support the same
thing for an x-axis of time offsets from an arbitrary zero, where the
axis starts at zero and counts up minutes or months or centuries of
timespan as appropriate.

I almost always end up needing to deal with charting automatically-
generated time-series data with wildly-ranging timespan widths, and
very few of the available charting engines out there work well for it
in this regard. Lately I've been using Timeplot ( http://simile.mit.edu/timeplot
), which is browser-based and does a decent job at it, although it
wasn't really designed for the kinds of data I'm displaying in
general, and doesn't have the generic power of a generic charting
engine like the Google one.

[helly]

Hi,

we have something like this in our internal bug database as feature
request already. Stay tuned. Hopefully we soon get time to add this
feature.

best regards
marcus

On Dec 6, 7:05 pm, blblack <blbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My top feature request would be native support for time-series data.
> Mostly what this means (the "hard" part) is that one should be able to
> supply the x-axis values as some sort of standard timestamp (seconds
> since the epoch like *nix, or ISO-8601, etc), and regardless of
> whether these values are evenly spaced, or span an hour, a month, or a
> decade, the chart engine heuristically picks reasonable tickmarks
> indicating date and/or time. It's also useful to support the same
> thing for an x-axis of time offsets from an arbitrary zero, where the
> axis starts at zero and counts up minutes or months or centuries of
> timespan as appropriate.
>
> I almost always end up needing to deal with charting automatically-
> generated time-series data with wildly-ranging timespan widths, and
> very few of the available charting engines out there work well for it

> in this regard. Lately I've been using Timeplot (http://simile.mit.edu/timeplot

[mikeg]

In the mean time, you might take a look at this example to do a simple
time series plot using the existing API.

http://mikes-place.awardspace.com/google_charts/

[chart dude]

I would be overjoyed if a time-series feature got added. I've been
crying out for this type of functionality in a web app for ages!
Any more details on when we might expect it?

Thanks,
Chris

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[tez]

I vote for this one too as a priority.

[Disappointed]

Having support for both timeseries and timelines, in a manner similar
to the SIMILE project, would be great. These are really interesting
chart types, and if combined with a store of public data series (e.g.
stock quotes), could make some really interesting mash-ups.

As with Google Maps, the key to having interesting mash-ups is having
a common set of dimensions. In the Maps case it was geo-coordinates,
but time is even more universal.

On Dec 6, 10:05 am, blblack <blbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My top feature request would be native support for time-series data.
> Mostly what this means (the "hard" part) is that one should be able to
> supply the x-axis values as some sort of standard timestamp (seconds
> since the epoch like *nix, or ISO-8601, etc), and regardless of
> whether these values are evenly spaced, or span an hour, a month, or a
> decade, the chart engine heuristically picks reasonable tickmarks
> indicating date and/or time. It's also useful to support the same
> thing for an x-axis of time offsets from an arbitrary zero, where the
> axis starts at zero and counts up minutes or months or centuries of
> timespan as appropriate.
>
> I almost always end up needing to deal with charting automatically-
> generated time-series data with wildly-ranging timespan widths, and
> very few of the available charting engines out there work well for it

> in this regard. Lately I've been using Timeplot (http://simile.mit.edu/timeplot