Hugo, I agree that it would be nice to have some more control over how the timeline behaves with events that are several lengths of the timeline. I believe that your third suggestion has already been implemented in Exhibit/Timeline. If you type in a specific enough term in the search box, the timeline is centered on the beginning or the end of the event in question. (Try "Virginia" or "one year" on my timeline.)
A problem with this method is that the information bubble associated with an event seems to generate in the event's middle. Thus, if you have an event (like the life of Virginia Woolf in my example), it can take a long time to actually find the bubble as you can only see ~1 year at once on the timeline. It would be nice if you clicked on any portion of such an event if the bubble would appear there or if the event would then get centered in the timeline view. (Peter Frederick and I have been discussing this off-list). Is this a feature that could be implemented? (As if David doesn't have enough to do with getting a real job. [Congratulations, by the way]). Of course, the easiest way to take care of this problem is to make sure you pick the proper units for your bands depending on the data you are going to represent. This becomes much more difficult when you are working with a timeline where you are allowing others to contribute to the data set. Best, Brian General List <[email protected]> writes: >When playing with your app I find something in Timeline in general that I'd >like to be considered: > >When the horizontal axis values included in data, are extend too far apart >from the visible portion in Timeline, would be nice to have something to >improve the experience of using Timeline. I propose some alternatives: > >1- A Zooming In and Out mechanismn the let you find some particular section in >the x axis. (Like GMaps Zoom Slider) >2- A box for enter a value to position both the lower ruler and the cursor the >sliding window >3- A search box for looking a particular event / value and position Timeline >there >4- External to the Timeline "throttle" buttons for speeding up (FFwd and Rwd) >5- When facets combination are selected, give the choice of auto >scale/position the x axis to a value meaningful to the set found >6- Will be nice nice for example in Timeline that I could select the type of X >axis scale (Linear, logarithmic, ascending, descending, etc) for both the >ruler and the cursor >7- If considering Timeline like a viewport to a dataset, will be nice to have >small global view of the set and Timeline position in the set (Something like >ArgoUML general view) > >I'm old enough (53) for having using slide rule in school and college. Playing >with Timeline brings me back those days memories. But there was something in >the slide rule: I allways have all the witdh of it to my glance. > >Cheers > >2008/2/19 Brian L. Croxall <[ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >Hi team, > >I'm glad to report that the Google Forms Timeline is working again. Tom from >Bionic Teaching spurred me in the right direction as far as fixing the >spreadsheet was concerned. You can read more details at [ >http://ecitadventures.blogspot.com/2008/02/google-forms-timeline-is-back-hurrah.html >]http://ecitadventures.blogspot.com/2008/02/google-forms-timeline-is-back-hurrah.html. > >More to the point, you can see the GFT at [ >http://webdrive.service.emory.edu/users/bcroxal/www/Portfolio/GoogleFormsTimeline.html >]http://webdrive.service.emory.edu/users/bcroxal/www/Portfolio/GoogleFormsTimeline.html > and >contribute to it using the form at >[ https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pgVTGTpzTQgu8Xk5EFT1zew >]https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pgVTGTpzTQgu8Xk5EFT1zew. > > >Brian > > >General List <[ mailto:[email protected] [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Okay, this is a bit embarassing. After posting both on my blog and writing to >the listserv, it now appears that the Google Form Timeline is not functioning >as it should. There have been at least three people (I'm guessing from here) >who have used the form to add an event to the spreadsheet, but they are not >being plotted on the timeline. At first I thought that it had to do with the >way the dates were formatted: the spreadsheet was forcing them into a format >that Exhibit doesn't read. However, I've corrected that and I'm getting >nothing, not even events that I've added subsequently added directly to the >spreadsheet or via the form. > >I tested this process with three different people this afternoon and didn't >have any problems. Firebug isn't showing me anything wrong with the page. I'll >work on hunting down what the problem might be tomorrow afternoon. > >Thanks for the interest thus far. >Brian > > >General List <[ mailto:[email protected] [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi all, > >Last week Google added a new functionality to its spreadsheets. You can read >about it at [ >http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/02/stop-sharing-spreadsheets-start.html >]http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/02/stop-sharing-spreadsheets-start.html. >Basically, you can create a form to have people populate the spreadsheet with >data without having to allow them access to the spreadsheet. > >I wondered if I could use this with my work on Exhibit and timelines for my >classes. The result is what I'm calling the Google Forms Timeline: [ >http://webdrive.service.emory.edu/users/bcroxal/www/Portfolio/GoogleFormsTimeline.html >]http://webdrive.service.emory.edu/users/bcroxal/www/Portfolio/GoogleFormsTimeline.html. > >Feel free to test drive it yourselves by filling out the form at [ >https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pgVTGTpzTQgu8Xk5EFT1zew >]https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pgVTGTpzTQgu8Xk5EFT1zew. > >I think there are some advantages and disadvantages for using the form in a >classroom setting, and I discuss these on my blog at [ >http://ecitadventures.blogspot.com/2008/02/making-timelines-easier.html >]http://ecitadventures.blogspot.com/2008/02/making-timelines-easier.html. > >One question for this and the Victorian Age Timeline that I've posted about >previously: when I load the timelines into a browser (generally FF, but also >IE and Safari), when I click on an event with a picture, the first time the >event bubble generates, it is far too small for the picture (horiz. and vert. >scroll bars are the result). Closing the bubble and immediately re-opening the >bubble causes the bubble to scale appropriately. Is there a way around this? > >Brian >-------------------------------- >Brian Croxall >English Department and Emory Center for Interactive Teaching (ECIT) >Emory University >Atlanta, Georgia 30322 >404.630.5271 >[ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[ mailto:[email protected] [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[ http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general >]http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > > _______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[ mailto:[email protected] [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[ http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general >]http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[ mailto:[email protected] [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[ http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general >]http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
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