Visualize Your Timeline

A list of events need not be boring.

Sep 18, 2013 1-min read

A simple list of personal and corporate events can be informative, but isn't terribly sexy.

I've been playing around with visual timelines, and Timeline.js is pretty sick. You can spend a great deal of time customizing it with different links and images, but the following took me about two minutes once I parsed my data.

Updated: Monday, March 21, 2016

Looks like this site isn't functional anymore. Trust me: the Madonna timeline was pretty neat. Here's Whitney Houston's:

While you're at it, check out Madonna's most controversial moments.

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There are cool ways to represent even simple data.

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