Avoid spiral timelines when the task requires fast lookup.
I feel like spiral timelines would be quite difficult to read and rather hard to follow. The timelines that are linear and circular are much easier to understand and follow. All timeline designs, tasks that depend on long-term memory performance are slower and less accurate, and I would think that since the spiral timeline is harder to read it would be harder to learn and memorize with spiral timelines.
when, in which we want to figure out the date in which a specific event happened. One example of this would be: When did the earthquake happen?what, in which we want to figure out what event happened at a specific date. Example: What happened in 1999?find, in which we know both the event and the date, and want to find the location on the timeline. Example: The earthquake happened in 1898. Find it on the timeline.compare, in which we want to know the timing of an event relative to another one. Example: Did Cleopatra live closer to the launch of the first iPhone or the construction of the Pyramids?
A timeline is a demonstration of an event's chronologically along a drawn timeline that helps viewers rapidly comprehend temporal relationships. Timelines are very easy to read and quite simple. The prevalence of timelines, which is very high, is another factor contributing to the simplicity. Simple static visualisations are important in communication because almost everyone interacts with timelines on a daily basis. Whether it be a plan of your day, or learning about history.
Let’s consider the properties of the data that we want to represent. A dataset containing sequences of events can have events that repeat throughout the dataset, events that never repeat, or a mix of the two. It’s easy to imagine real life datasets with these properties. We can define these categories:
I have never thought of having a circle or different form other than a line for a timeline. It intrigued me so I did some research to see if I could find any circle timelines that I would find interesting. Here are a few that I found interesting https://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/full-year-circular-timeline-template-vector-25811470 https://slidemodel.com/templates/4-simple-circles-diagram-timeline-template/
ccording to thisaccount, for something to qualify as historiography, it is not enough that it “dealin real, rather than merely imaginary, events; and it is not enough that [itrepresent] events in its order of discourse according to the chronologicalframework in which they originally occurred. The events must be...revealed aspossessing a structure, an order of meaning, that they do not possess as meresequence.”⁴
I had not really given this much thought. I usually just listed events in a timeline in the order they occurred, but now I can see how much more significant timelines can be if they have a purpose. Tell a story of what happened rather than just listing facts.The fact that timelines provide context is one of the factors that makes them such an effective learning tool. They specifically provide students with a visual timeline of historical events. So adding images and other components may be crucial in the learning outcome.