visualization

Links to monthly archives allow you to page chronologically through entries of a blog. The links are usually presented as a list that grows ever longer: April 2008, March 2008, February 2008, etc.. I found this a bit boring, and made a graph to present this information as a visual indicator for my posting activity. See the graph in action on the home page of alexome.com.

I ran across Timeline by SIMILE today. Being weary of using Excel to create timelines, i was sure there must be something slicker out there. Lifehacker offers a good introduction to Timeline: Geek to Live: Roll your own timeline.

Timeline is “a DHTML AJAX timeline widget for visualizing temporal information. It is like Google Maps for time-based information.”