helgasoft
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1 year ago ECharts has a dynamic timeline solution.
Most, if not all of your static examples could be designed in ECharts with mixed series like line, scatter, graphic, markLine, etc.
See this example made with ECharts lines, on top of R.
What problem does this feature solve?
The "Lines" section does not have any tools to help indicate sequence of events in a chronology. Understanding the correct order of events is fundamental to creating a narrative to understand the world. Chronology helps us understand history and enables us to better plan the future. it is a key tool in several areas, such as forensics.
We should have easy to use and beautiful to see timelines of various sorts for different use cases.
What does the proposed API look like?
There are several examples of timelines to use as examples here;