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Timeplot: Canvas-based Specialized Charting Tool

Filed under: Web 2.0 News — Ben Galbraith at 9:00 am on Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Timeplot

On July 1st and July 7th, we posted about Timeline from the Simile project.

We’re pleased to post about another related project: Timeplot, which is

a canvas-based ajaxy plotting companion to
our Timeline widget (that also supports the same timeline data formats).

Follow the link; the screen shot doesn’t do it justice. While you’re there, don’t miss the comprehensive tutorial, which shows how easy it is to create these charts.

In a nutshell, you do this:

HTML:

  1.  
  2. <script src=“http://static.simile.mit.edu/timeplot/api/1.0/timeplot-api.js”
  3.        type=“text/javascript”></script>
  4. <script type=“text/javascript”>
  5. var timeplot = Timeplot.create(document.getElementById("my-timeplot"), plotInfo);
  6. timeplot.loadText("data.txt", ",", eventSource);
  7. </script>
  8.  

and the “data.txt” file is just a CSV file. And the tutorial even shows you how to make it look purty.

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