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# Visualize Your Timeline
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/visualize-your-timeline/
- Published: 2013-09-18T15:53:17.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-14T11:21:47.000Z
- Description: A list of events need not be boring.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Big Data, Dataviz, The Visual Organization

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](https://timeline.verite.co/?ref=philsimon.com) 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:

[![](https://i.imgur.com/k8MN56m.jpg)](https://timeline.knightlab.com/examples/houston/index.html?ref=philsimon.com)

While you're at it, check out [Madonna's most controversial moments](https://s.24p.co/RWGfIi?ref=philsimon.com).

[Dataviz and Dry CleanersVisualizations are seemingly everywhere these days.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8f/b5/8fb5e321-49a6-4cf5-8a28-c6f6d5417e54/content/images/icon/newlogo-2-104.png)Phil SimonPhil Simon![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8f/b5/8fb5e321-49a6-4cf5-8a28-c6f6d5417e54/content/images/thumbnail/photo-1578329824171-ef7611e9a5ca)](https://www.philsimon.com/dataviz-and-dry-cleaners/)

## Simon Says

There are cool ways to represent even simple data.