Speculative Timeline Visualization

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Well, Me. My name is Shawn Day and I am a PhD student in the History Department at McMaster University in Hamilton. Academically, my research interests revolve about nineteenth century Canadian economic, business and social history. Most specifically the role of drink and those who served them in late 19thC Ontario. More broadly I explore the adaptation of technology and information visualisation to the pedagogical process. Professionally, I earned my stripes in the dotcom boom as jack-of-all trades in co-founded development ventures. Prior to that I was a self-employed journeyman involved in diverse aspects of information architecture. I have some history in technology and a joy in life is catalyzing the reaction between technology and the study of history.
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- The Wind and the Lion (1975) 9/10
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- House of Cards (1968) 8/10
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The 'new' TAPoRware Word Cloud is dynamically generated on page load and takes the words on that page as source. Hovering over a word will pop up the number of time it occurs on this page

Dec 13

Film, Info Architecture, Timelines Add comments

On the subject of impressive focus on detail, comes this amusing exercise…Mapping the various timelines in the collection of back to the Future movies to allow for the creation of alternate timelines due to time travel. This Wikipedia entry charts the various characters, their ancestors and particular events and attempts to portray all the skipping around through time in a straight forward chart. The author does an great job…this is information distillation extremely well accomplished. The article is fun in its own right, but the imagining of the alternate timelines is particularly astute.