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Timeline of Major Trends and Events (Social, Technological, Economic & Political)

6 December 2009 596 views 5 Comments

I found a unique and visually stunning infographic on FlickR today:

Timeline of Major Trends and Events (Social, Technological, Economic & Political)

Peter von Stackelberg designed this complex timeline of social, technological, economic and political events and trends from 1750 to 2100. Each time series shows graphs, events and categories on a common scale. Peter says:

“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.”

This graphic, and a number of others, can also be found on the Gallery of Data Visualization - Timelines site.  Also, thanks to Stephen Lark (author of IntegralDiagrams.info) for uploading a high-res photo to Zoomorama. For some other great links see the comment below.

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5 Comments »

  • Stephen Lark said:

    I uploaded this to Zoomorama here to make it easier to zoom it to read the detail. I also uploaded 2 other history infovis diagrams that are not on Gallery of Data Visualization - Timelines: Wall Chart of
    World History     and Co-Evolution of Human Systems and Tool Systems

    # 6 December 2009 at 5:20 pm
  • ericblue76 (author) said:

    Thanks Stephen, very good idea! I completely forgot about using something like Zoomorama. Also, thanks for the other great diagrams!!

    # 6 December 2009 at 9:03 pm
  • ivan said:

    Hi,
    what software was used for making these infographics - something specific or something common (i.e. OpenOffice Draw)?

    I use free program, named Calizo, for drawing timelines for myself, but it is specific fo timellines and has no ability to add graphics.

    # 11 December 2009 at 2:59 am
  • Stephen Lark said:

    Ivan, the author of this diagram is Peter von Stackelburg pvonstackelberg@anethum-corp.com http://www.futureswatch.org (these contact details are in the bottom-right of the diagram). E-mail Peter to find out what tool(s) he used to create the diagram.

    # 14 December 2009 at 5:22 am
  • ivan said:

    Thank you, Stephen! Evidently, I lost my attention and power of observation, while watching the diagram… :)

    # 15 December 2009 at 4:55 am

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