A student named David Huynh at MIT cooked up a nifty AJAX application that presents simple XML data as an interactive timeline. I love timelines for their power to plot a lot of information in a way that’s instantly easy to understand and explore. His example implementation presents all of the events surrounding the assassination of president Kennedy, but it’s super simple to plug in any data source and run your own experiments.

Posted by Shawn in Data Visualization, Inspiration, Technology