Cool! I made something similar with the same datasets a year ago, but with geocoordinates instead of timestamps: https://theilemail.de/wikipage/ It shows a zoomable map with the "most important" wikipedia entries at specific locations.
It was very hard to get the parameters right so that the text is always displayed in a good size, while showing not too few or too many entries. I never published it until now, I think.
ks2048 1 days ago [-]
You need some visual feedback that it's loading. I see a blank screen for 30 seconds.
keynha 18 hours ago [-]
This is really nicely done, the log zoom makes 4M events feel navigable instead of like a wall. How are you serving a viewport at that scale: precomputed levels of detail, or a query against the raw events on each pan and zoom?
lortex 13 hours ago [-]
Thank you ! It's indeed precomputed levels of detail, the backend serves a key-value store: for each bucket a top 10 events that start or end in this bucket. A bucket is described by its zoom level (from 1 day to 2^34 days) and time coordinates.
keynha 4 hours ago [-]
Makes sense, thanks. The fixed 10-per-bucket cap is what keeps every viewport the same size no matter the zoom, that's the elegant bit.
It is quite strange indeed, it's probably a bug in the visualization because in my database I see that Kellie's Castle has a low rank.
est 12 hours ago [-]
It feels a little strange on macbook touchpad, otherwise it's a cool project
willtemperley 11 hours ago [-]
Also on a macbook, it took me a while to realise pinch to zoom doesn't do anything except zoom the page, pan is click and drag, and scroll is zoom. Cool project except for the controls, surely scroll should be to scroll up and down?
darkstarsys 1 days ago [-]
See also my log-scale timeline of the universe — hand-curated rather than a giant import, and I hope also a bit nicer/simpler UI: https://deep-timeline.org
lortex 1 days ago [-]
Thank you for sharing your project, it must have been quite some work to curate the events. My plan is to at some point be able to implement various filters so that people can make usable timelines. Right now it's more of a tech demo.
stvltvs 1 days ago [-]
Nice! I can't help thinking it would be informative to see it on a linear scale. Vast, unfathomable stretches of time before humans come on the scene, and then human history is a blip at the end.
popalchemist 1 days ago [-]
This is well done. How did you source and categorize the data points?
TealMyEal 19 hours ago [-]
its a very promising idea, i recently god into the Bronze age collapse and this was a nice way to look around at other events happening at that time and put context to it. a few bugs to iron out but yeah good work
kingo55 23 hours ago [-]
Events in the future are labelled in past tense. Rather than "happened in 4.5B" you could write "forecast in 4.5B"
soupspaces 15 hours ago [-]
Oh yeah and it doesn't even account for time dilation 5/7
Unearned5161 1 days ago [-]
Thank you for making this, it's very nice. I love a good timeline, everything seems to make a bit more sense when it's laid out spatially.
aayushdutt 19 hours ago [-]
Can you share the data, the view can be improved a lot, it's not really capturing the essence.
maxlin 1 days ago [-]
An arbitrary data error I found is that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekadefari is shown on the year 760251. That number is obviously wrong, it instead appears to be the postcode of the place.
lortex 1 days ago [-]
Wikidata is the source I used to get metadata about Wikipedia articles. Sometimes the data is automatically extracted from Wikipedia articles which introduces these errors. What's nice is that the timeline representation easily shows these outliers and will help us fix them !
jcbe 19 hours ago [-]
+1, I noticed and fixed a few erroneous dates that would have presumably been difficult to surface otherwise
GMoromisato 19 hours ago [-]
The problem is that there's no guarantee that extraction errors will always end up as outliers. Instead, outliers are merely the errors that are easiest to find.
<Insert bullet-ridden bomber image here>
hobofan 1 days ago [-]
Almost everything further than a few years in the future and a few predicted pangea events appear to be data errors.
Morhaus 12 hours ago [-]
Congrats on shipping :)
UnfitFootprint 21 hours ago [-]
Really fun! Worked like a dream on iOS safari
Jtarii 1 days ago [-]
Instantly freezes the moment I try to interact with it on firefox.
lortex 1 days ago [-]
Hi, thank you for giving it a try ! I test both on Firefox (152) and Chrome, mobile and desktop.
If you don't mind please send me (lucas@pluvina.ge) the error message that appears in the console.
HikesALot 1 days ago [-]
works for me on Firefox 152. Lots of fun!
Frog1230 1 days ago [-]
Works, its cool to look at but might there be a use case?
The_Blade 24 hours ago [-]
is having fun learning no longer a valid use case
ss2f 1 days ago [-]
Fantastic! Testing this on linux-gnome-firefox is smooth.
0gs 1 days ago [-]
yeah, borked on Chrome Android too. too bad, i want to see it!
lortex 1 days ago [-]
Hi, I'm sorry for that, my backend is struggling a bit I didn't expect to be on the front page so soon.
On https://www.diena.co/everything/ there is a page with a video if you want to see how it looks and behaves.
p0wn 20 hours ago [-]
Very cool
Arslan1997 1 days ago [-]
This is awesome
UltraSane 1 days ago [-]
Very nice, I would like a similar tool for analyzing system logs and metrics.
maxlin 1 days ago [-]
Cool, though I assume there's some accuracy shortfalls, when not close to zero the UI breaks when years are ~1 pixel in size.
Probably doesn't matter for much of the content, though immediately comes to mind that for after big bang there is "known events" that happened at second-scale. Don't know if there's exact Wikipeida articles of those, but with an appropriately accurate timestamp storage & handling (128bit? more?), one could well zoom in to those if they did exist.
lortex 1 days ago [-]
Yes indeed, I'll fix them at some point ! For in-between events it doesn't really matter to be able to zoom in, but it'd be great to explore the birth of the universe on this timeline. Storage wise it's already supporting such precision, but the UI (which was made for the 1900-2100 range initially) still has issues.
maeril 1 days ago [-]
This is so cooooool
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dezzayn-com 21 hours ago [-]
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Rendered at 23:00:33 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
It was very hard to get the parameters right so that the text is always displayed in a good size, while showing not too few or too many entries. I never published it until now, I think.
<Insert bullet-ridden bomber image here>
Probably doesn't matter for much of the content, though immediately comes to mind that for after big bang there is "known events" that happened at second-scale. Don't know if there's exact Wikipeida articles of those, but with an appropriately accurate timestamp storage & handling (128bit? more?), one could well zoom in to those if they did exist.