Time Series in JavaScript

How to plot D3.js-based date and time in Plotly.js. An example of a time-series plot.

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Date Strings

var data = [
  {
    x: ['2013-10-04 22:23:00', '2013-11-04 22:23:00', '2013-12-04 22:23:00'],
    y: [1, 3, 6],
    type: 'scatter'
  }
];

Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data);

Basic Time Series

d3.csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/finance-charts-apple.csv", function(err, rows){

  function unpack(rows, key) {
  return rows.map(function(row) { return row[key]; });
}


var trace1 = {
  type: "scatter",
  mode: "lines",
  name: 'AAPL High',
  x: unpack(rows, 'Date'),
  y: unpack(rows, 'AAPL.High'),
  line: {color: '#17BECF'}
}

var trace2 = {
  type: "scatter",
  mode: "lines",
  name: 'AAPL Low',
  x: unpack(rows, 'Date'),
  y: unpack(rows, 'AAPL.Low'),
  line: {color: '#7F7F7F'}
}

var data = [trace1,trace2];

var layout = {
  title: 'Basic Time Series',
};

Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout);
})

Manually Set Range

d3.csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/finance-charts-apple.csv", function(err, rows){

  function unpack(rows, key) {
  return rows.map(function(row) { return row[key]; });
}


var trace1 = {
  type: "scatter",
  mode: "lines",
  x: unpack(rows, 'Date'),
  y: unpack(rows, 'AAPL.High'),
  line: {color: '#17BECF'}
}

var trace2 = {
  type: "scatter",
  mode: "lines",
  x: unpack(rows, 'Date'),
  y: unpack(rows, 'AAPL.Low'),
  line: {color: '#7F7F7F'}
}

var data = [trace1,trace2];

var layout = {
  title: 'Custom Range',
  xaxis: {
    range: ['2016-07-01', '2016-12-31'],
    type: 'date'
  },
  yaxis: {
    autorange: true,
    range: [86.8700008333, 138.870004167],
    type: 'linear'
  }
};

Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout);
})

Time Series with Rangeslider

d3.csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/finance-charts-apple.csv", function(err, rows){

  function unpack(rows, key) {
  return rows.map(function(row) { return row[key]; });
}


var trace1 = {
  type: "scatter",
  mode: "lines",
  name: 'AAPL High',
  x: unpack(rows, 'Date'),
  y: unpack(rows, 'AAPL.High'),
  line: {color: '#17BECF'}
}

var trace2 = {
  type: "scatter",
  mode: "lines",
  name: 'AAPL Low',
  x: unpack(rows, 'Date'),
  y: unpack(rows, 'AAPL.Low'),
  line: {color: '#7F7F7F'}
}

var data = [trace1,trace2];

var layout = {
  title: 'Time Series with Rangeslider',
  xaxis: {
    autorange: true,
    range: ['2015-02-17', '2017-02-16'],
    rangeselector: {buttons: [
        {
          count: 1,
          label: '1m',
          step: 'month',
          stepmode: 'backward'
        },
        {
          count: 6,
          label: '6m',
          step: 'month',
          stepmode: 'backward'
        },
        {step: 'all'}
      ]},
    rangeslider: {range: ['2015-02-17', '2017-02-16']},
    type: 'date'
  },
  yaxis: {
    autorange: true,
    range: [86.8700008333, 138.870004167],
    type: 'linear'
  }
};

Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout);
})