Enable forecast functions for line charts#492

Are there any plans to add “forecasting” to the line chart options to predict (linear, others) based on the data in the table for the next “x” units? If it would be easier to enable this as a column addition on wpDataTables (a calculated column?) and then just plot it on wpDataCharts, that would work, too!

The only problem I have with that is that the wpDataCharts physically plots “blank” entries as ZERO, leaving a connected line (see the attached screenshot).

The ApexCharts package provides “forecastDataPoints” capabilities that show predictions from current data. (https://apexcharts.com/docs/options/forecastdatapoints/). Excel does this with the FORECAST, FORECAST.LINEAR, etc. functions.

I haven’t looked to see if the other plotting packages provides this or not, but if so, enable them with wpDataTables/wpDataCharts.

This would be extremely useful!