What's the best visual representation of a timeline, and why do they always seem to run from left to right?
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I am personally a fan of the timelines created by Wired.com (example in sources) because they use more than one or all of the elements you mentioned and are typically narrow in scope and visually appealing. The one I have liked includes jumbled images but I find this a stylistic choice that make the timeline more enjoyable to view instead of less.
On the negative side of that coin,I hate stumbling across timelines like this:
http://www.timelines.info/history/ages_and_periods/the_modern_world/science_and_technology/space_exploration/
They are too complicated and involved and because of the amount of information they represent they fail to make the original point - the sequence of events and their relationship to time.
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M$Basically for English speaking audiences better to use left to right copy but with nice visual impact with color, photos, videos, typography, etc. So it does not have to be a boring line of information.
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You are correct - in my haste to get my point across I didn't address this. To clarify, I was specifically criticizing the bunching of events under each other in an overly compressed timeline.
Here is an 'average' example of a vertical timeline:
http://schoolfinance.ncsa.org/timeline/vertical.htm
Thanks!
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