Brainstorm "timeline" view for a topical collection of research

[jywarren]

We've long talked about a "timeline" view of research, organized into topical streams, showing research notes, wiki edits, data uploads, comments, etc etc.

Lots of examples to take inspiration from:

• Github Pulse
• http://timeline.knightlab.com/
• https://technotarek.com/timeliner/

Lots here, just jotting down some notes.

[david-days]

Visualizations are a problem I've often encountered. Even if the data remains complex at any level, providing a visualization (or a series of them) can help.

I've used D3 to create some useful charts, before. Here are a few graph examples that might give you an idea of what might be useful.

(I'm considering D3 for some of the charts for the search relevancy results, too--it might be a way to display author, tag, topic, and word-salad relevancy to users trying to navigate the relationships of the research notes posted.

Sankey Diagram This one might produce the version mapping you display above.

Comic Timeline Another version of the Sankey diagram. Not as pretty, but note that additional information is available by clicking on the gray nodes.

Dependency Wheel Might be good for displaying collaborative relationships, or as a drill-down from the timeline/Sankey charts.

Word Cloud Less relevant to this, but might be used within narrowed searches (authors/profiles, topics, projects)

Network Diagrams This one is for language relationships, but shows the same data in two formats--something to keep in mind. One of the charts is the dependency wheel from above.

[grvsachdeva]

Hey @jywarren, can we close this one considering #2068 is dealing with all the graphs across site so this one should be covered? Thanks!