{"id":2526,"date":"2013-04-09T16:30:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T23:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2013-04-20T09:19:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T16:19:02","slug":"consider-the-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/consider-the-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider the Classic Infographic Form: the Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1553\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; padding-left: 12px;\" alt=\"Cartoon with timelines\" src=\"http:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/post-humor-timeline.png\" \/><\/a>Humorists want their audience to &#8220;get it&#8221; right away. Don&#8217;t <strong>most of us<\/strong> want this? <em>They<\/em> become cartoonists. But any of can communicate better using that classic infographic, the timeline (and I&#8217;m not talking about the UI of that social site):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Timelines can be a great way to sum up a series of events in visual way. People grasp the organizing principle immediately.<\/li>\n<li>Two timelines juxtaposed make for a strong visual comparison between two similar-but-different sequences.<\/li>\n<li>A timeline can carry details that make a &#8220;second glance&#8221; more informative. In designing a timeline, you&#8217;ll want to think on both the macro and the micro scale of content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For further entertainment, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1553\" target=\"_blank\">the original cartoon<\/a>, try clicking on the &#8220;Emergency Button&#8221; (found at the bottom right corner of the image). Weren&#8217;t we just speaking of drilling down to more information?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humorists want their audience to &#8220;get it&#8221; right away. Don&#8217;t most of us want this? They become cartoonists. But any of can communicate better using that classic infographic, the timeline (and I&#8217;m not talking about the UI of that social site): Timelines can be a great way to sum up a series of events in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}