Timeline of Major Events & Trends from 1750 to 2100

Peter von Stackelberg has compiled an impressive “timeline” visualization of major social, technological, and economic events from 1750 to 2100.

The purpose of the timeline is to provide a visual tool for looking at events across a relatively long period of time and identify patterns and interrelationships involving a broad range of factors. Identification of patterns is particularly important when attempting to look at the future of complex social, technological, economic, and other systems.

via Timeline of Major Events & Trends on Datavisualization.ch.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .