See also my log-scale timeline of the universe — hand-curated rather than a giant import, and I hope also a bit nicer/simpler UI: https://deep-timeline.org
This is well done. How did you source and categorize the data points?
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#22An arbitrary data error I found is that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekadefari is shown on the year 760251. That number is obviously wrong, it instead appears to be the postcode of the place.
Almost everything further than a few years in the future and a few predicted pangea events appear to be data errors.
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#23Works, its cool to look at but might there be a use case?
is having fun learning no longer a valid use case
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#24Events in the future are labelled in past tense. Rather than "happened in 4.5B" you could write "forecast in 4.5B"
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#26Really fun! Worked like a dream on iOS safari
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#27Very cool
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#28Can you share the data, the view can be improved a lot, it's not really capturing the essence.
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#29its a very promising idea, i recently god into the Bronze age collapse and this was a nice way to look around at other events happening at that time and put context to it. a few bugs to iron out but yeah good work
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#30An arbitrary data error I found is that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekadefari is shown on the year 760251. That number is obviously wrong, it instead appears to be the postcode of the place.
Wikidata is the source I used to get metadata about Wikipedia articles. Sometimes the data is automatically extracted from Wikipedia articles which introduces these errors. What's nice is that the timeline representation easily shows these outliers and will help us fix them !
+1, I noticed and fixed a few erroneous dates that would have presumably been difficult to surface otherwise