Jan Willem Tulp @tulpinteractive.com 路 Mar 6 NEW Very quick and small #dataviz experiment: parallel-lives, an interactive timeline of nearly 5000 years of notable people in history. janwillemtulp.github.io/parallel-liv... 3 reasons what I like about this approach:
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Have you seen Tim Urban's approach? waitbutwhy.com/2016/01/hori...
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I really like this. Two ways to improve: * I can鈥檛 rewind someone鈥檚 life when I scroll up/backwards. It needs to hit their birth to reset. * crosses are weird universal death icons, especially for BC
1. With more common timelines you are "framed" into thinking in "year of birth" and "year of death", but not so much in "age at a certain year", which is hard to imagine. And... getting a sense who was alive simultaneously requires you to glance all over and keep things in mind