https://ryanorban.com/categories/time/Recent content in Time on Ryan OrbanHugoen-usme@ryanorban.com (Ryan Orban)me@ryanorban.com (Ryan Orban)Ryan OrbanSun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://ryanorban.com/notes/here-is-today-temporal-visualization/Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000me@ryanorban.com (Ryan Orban)https://ryanorban.com/notes/here-is-today-temporal-visualization/<h3 id="summary" class="scroll-mt-8 group"> Summary <a href="#summary" class="no-underline hidden opacity-50 hover:opacity-100 !text-inherit group-hover:inline-block" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this heading" tabindex="-1"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="16" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" class="lucide lucide-link w-4 h-4 block" viewBox="0 0 24 24" > <path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71" /> <path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71" /> </svg> </a> </h3> <p>Here Is Today is a simple interactive data visualization that uses a single design technique — progressive zooming out through timescales — to make geological and cosmic time comprehensible. You start with today highlighted on a bar. The bar zooms out to show the current month. Then the year. Then your lifetime. Then human history. Then civilizations. Then the age of humans. Then mammals. Then life on Earth. Then the age of the Earth. Then the age of the universe. Each step dwarfs the previous.</p>