How to Create an Interactive Timeline Chart with JavaScript
Summary
Of course, if you have skills with technologies like HTML and JavaScript, it is easier to grasp what is happening and you can arrange a wider range of customizations quicker. In this tutorial, I decided to use AnyChart as it supports timelines out of the box and is also lightweight, flexible, and easy-to-use, providing extensive documentation and a dedicated playground that’s helpful for practising with code. I created a dataset for this timeline chart tutorial manually by compiling what I wanted from various news sources, two of the main ones being NYT and Bloomberg. For the central part, all I need to do is initialize the timeline chart object with the inbuilt functionality and set the points to the range series. Additionally, I want to show some more information for each of the data points in the timeline, so I add that to the chart tooltip as an interactive feature, including some customization to the appearance.
