Jago: I think links to live examples from the API documentation pages is a good suggestion. For an example of the annotated timeline in action, try checking out some Google finance pages, like:
http://www.google.com/finance?q=Goog For when it's best to use the annotated timeline or motion chart, they are used for visualization of time series most of the time, and in particular can be used for multivariate time series effectively. The annotated timeline also gives you the the ability to <drumroll> annotate points with little notes, which is cool in certain cases. The motion chart's special move is different; it maps the time dimension of the data to the time dimension of the animation. In contrast, the timeline maps the time dimension of the data to what we might usually call the x-axis of the chart, and you see whole series at once. You might find this paper interesting, which suggests a third method for vizualizing multivariate time series (a method which can probably be reproduced with existing Vizualization API methods): http://www.jstatsoft.org/v25/c01/ -Mose On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 6:47 AM, jago <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Everybody knows what a pie chart is and for what it is best used for. > > The same is not true for AnnotatedTimeLine and MotionChart. Please > make some really big examples that show the power of those charts in > visualizing correlations in your data normally not seen. > > The examples in the docs hardly satisfy this need. I do not get the > full potential of AnnotatedTimeLine and MotionChart. And if people > don't get it, they do not use it :( > > Or could anybody else post some links to complex AnnotatedTimeLine and > MotionChart examples. > > Thanks. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
