Ray: I reviewed Chronoscope (old version) and your offering (Timescope / Timefire?) ... both look really good. Also, several references to "viz guy" references Chronoscope and the implementation w.r.t. Google's Annotated Time Line appears very similar minus a few hooks. W.r.t. licensing, Chronoscope is LGPL and Timescope / Timefire has other licensing costs. In this economy, open source / "free to host" would be nice. On an unrelated note, the charts on Timescope / Timefire do not appear to work at http://timefire.com/showcase/ on IE7
Seems like these are being hosted at ... Chronoscope = http://api.timepedia.org/widget/chronoscope.js Google's Visualization = http://www.google.com/jsapi My concern is that if these annotated time charts are provided as a contribution over Google's default offering and hosted by multiple domains, performance and reliability may also be questionable due to network latency. You did mention that it can be run as a standalone widget and not dependent on GViz ... but is this downloaded and run on the client or hosted? See my question in the original posting above. Thanks! - Rohit On Feb 3, 1:12 pm, Ray Cromwell <[email protected]> wrote: > You might be interested in Timescope (see here for > screencast,http://timefire.comorhttp://timefire.com/showcase/for a live demo) > Timescope is a superset of Google Annotated Timeline, it provides six > different marker types: > > 1) pushpins (ala Google Maps) > 2) arbitrary image icons (ala Google Maps) > 3) callout markers > 4) axis markers (ala Google Finance, Yahoo Finance) > 5) domain and range markets (e.g. indicate recessions or normal trading > ranges) > > You can style anything through a CSS-lookalike language called GSS > (Graph Style Sheets). It has the ability to render lines, step charts, > bar charts, candlesticks, and bubble charts (ala Google Motion Chart). > It handles dataset sizes over tens of thousands of points. The legend > and date axes support granularity down to microseconds up to > millennia, numbers can be formatted via custom format strings or > callbacks, datasets can be mutated inplace without redrawing the whole > chart. Lots of other stuff too, like runs on android as a native app, > supports chart-server rendering, can be programmed with zero-JS > (microformat TABLE + GSS), runs as GViz but can also run as standalone > widget, or as google gadget. > > We are looking for beta users, just drop me an email if you're > interested. There is already an old version onhttp://timepedia.org. > > -Ray > > > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:57 PM, googelybear <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I totally agree with you guys - more customizability is the way to go. > > Currently a) would be great for me: old-school balloon tips (as on > > google maps - why did you do it differently in the timeline?) and a > > traditional legend on the right side. > > > Btw. how can you turn off the internally rendered legend? I know that > > you can hide the annotaitons but I didn't find a way to remove the > > legend (and do it my own way). > > > I don't know about the corporation between the google finance and the > > visualizations team but there are definitely some features that would > > make a nice addition to the AnnotatedTimeline (e.g. arbitrary markers > > not related to a data series - but I already posted this in another > > thread). > > > On 3 Feb., 20:28, Grant Lucas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I particularly am interested in your enhancement C. I would also like > >> to be able to customize more than just the colours of the lines. I'd > >> like to have control over every colour displayed so it matches our > >> applicatoin much better. > > >> On Feb 3, 1:42 pm, rohitc <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > First off, the annotated time line is a great component and something > >> > folks have wanted for a long time. > > >> > Have a quick question and a couple of feature requests that I thought > >> > I'd cram into a single posting :) > > >> > Question: > > >> > Are releases of new versions of this component expected to be backward > >> > compatible? > >> > Is it possible to download and host all needed components locally from > >> > our server or do you expect us to cross reference Google's domain to > >> > download JS, CSS, SWF files i.e. indirectly > >> > viahttp://www.google.com/jsapi > >> > ? I noticed that there was a mix of http and https references which > >> > popup in IE as warnings that I was hoping to avoid. > > >> > Feature / enhancement requests: > > >> > a. The legend in its present form isn't very intuitive/standard w.r.t. > >> > trends as seen in most libraries. This is especially obvious when you > >> > have a large number of series (with large labels) plotted > >> > simultaneously. Good news is that you folks provide an option to turn > >> > off the internally rendered legend. The concept is great in that > >> > you'll have combined the legend and datapoint tooltips into a single > >> > entity thereby saving on real estate. However, I think a lot of people > >> > prefer the old fashioned legend on the right (which could even be > >> > custom rendered outside the annotated time line component) and data > >> > points as a tooltip (with custom html formatting) via a hover over the > >> > period units. > > >> > b. Is it possible to customize the series data points when > >> > highlighted? As of now, they're small dots which aren't really visible > >> > when you increase the line thickness. Suggestion - a nice > >> > visualization of the onhover datapoints is a colored hollow circle. > > >> > c. Provide more options to customize; e.g. the black border is too > >> > dark. The cyan background in the timeline adjuster section at the > >> > bottom doesn't mix well with our application palette. > > >> > d. Provide the ability to scale the time line to a higher level of > >> > granularity. e.g. weeks, months, years (with corresponding support in > >> > the datatable). e.g. if I want to trend last 12 months of data, I'd > >> > like to see 12 points corresponding to 12 months - not 365 points > >> > corresponding to the number of days in the 12 months. > > >> > e. Provide an attached carousel control (docked at the top or bottom) > >> > to show annotations. > >> > e.g.http://billwscott.com/carousel/carousel_html_static_multiple.htmlhttp......- > >> > Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
