A JS gadget for viewing temperature trends.

In my previous post I showed a map of all possible trends calculated over sub-time intervals of a period, with a mechanism for selecting different datasets and periods. Since there seem to be ongoing interest in viewing trends, I thought a useful Javascript gadget could be developed from that.

Now when you select a dataset/time combination, a corresponding time series plot is displayed, with two colored balls representing the start and end of each trend period. The numerical data are displayed on the right. There are several ways of controlling the horizontal position of the balls:

• You can click on the colored triangle. Each position represents a start/end combination, so the balls will move to the endpoints of the fitted regression line, and the slope and locations will appear on the right. It's a realisation of the color on the plot, and should correspond.
• You can move the balls by clicking on the red or blue bars on the graph.
• You can nudge, for fine control, using the <<<<>>>> device of the appropriate color. The outside symbols move the ball of that color by 8 months, the next by 4 and the innermost by 1.