I used the spreadsheet of data about the Viet Nam war that I gave in the last post. This is a really nicely made tool that just requires that you create a spreadsheet, import it into their tool, and it will give you back a nicely interactive timeline. (But keep reading for the rest of the story below. So let me show you my first timeline solution, which turned out to be both very nice, elegant, and simple to use.Īfter my search, the first hit was TimelineJS from Knight LabSo I used it to create the timeline below. But it turns out that finding just the right feature set is tricky. My plan was to illustrate several of them to show which worked in particular ways. THAT was successful and led me to a bunch of tools. So I went back to regular Google and did this search: But some were too simple, some too complicated, and more than a few were apps for use on a mobile device. These were good, and by opening up a few of them, I found a number of tools. ![]() So I looked in Google Images to see what kinds of timelines were possible. ![]() Lots of queries would have worked here, but my plan is to find out what KINDS of timelines are available, and then work backwards to see how they were created. There's the obvious Challenge here (find a timeline tool you can use), but also a deeper SRS question: How do you find tools? Using that tool, can you find a data set that you'd like to see as a timeline? (I've got a link to a sample data set below.) Can you find an online tool (or app) that will let you take a collection of events (both points in time, and periods of time) and create a timeline? 2. The thing is, it's not hard to find timeline creation tools, but it IS tricky to find one that has the right set of features. and it's taken me a LOT longer than I thought it would to explore them.
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