A broad collection of different techniques for visually portraying trends, changes and activities over time. Presentation delivered via webinar hosted by Tableau on 4th April 2019.

1. THE DESIGN OF TIME
by Andy Kirk

2. TRENDS CHANGES TIMELINES
CYCLES GEO-TEMPORAL SEQUENCES

3. TRENDS
Continuous patterns

4. 5
‘Forecasted Chance of Winning Presidency’ by New York Times
https://twitter.com/visualisingdata/status/796300720383397889

5. 6
'Cricketer Alastair Cook plays his final Test match’ by John Burn-Murdoch
https://www.ft.com/content/3464a154-b27f-11e8-8d14-6f049d06439c

6. 7
‘Number of Ministerial Resignations' by Institute for Government
https://twitter.com/johnny_c_lillis/status/1113460271002148864

7. 8
‘Baby names since 1904’ by ONS
http://visual.ons.gov.uk/baby-names-since-1904-how-has-yours-performed/

8. 9
‘How well do you know the NHS?’ by The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2018/jul/02/nhs-at-70-how-well-do-you-know-the-health-service

9. 10
‘History Through the President’s Words' by the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/2014-state-of-the-union/language-of-sotu/

10. 11
‘Growth in Olympic Participation’ by Andy Kirk

11. 12
‘How France And Croatia Made It To The World Cup Final’ by Rachel Dottle
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-france-and-croatia-made-it-to-the-world-cup-final-in-one-chart/

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‘Ebb and Flow at the Box Office' by New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/23/movies/20080223_REVENUE_GRAPHIC.html

13. 15
‘100 years of tax brackets, in one chart’ by Alvin Chang/Vox
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/16/17215874/tax-brackets-100-years-chart

14. 16
‘Michael Phelps vs. Himself’ by New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/09/sports/olympics/2016-08-09-olympics-phelps-vs-phelps.html

15. 17
‘Trump approval ratings’ by FiveThirtyEight
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

16. 18
‘Daily Candlestick Chart (FTSE 100)’ by Techniquant
https://techniquant.com/reports/index-ftse-daily-technical-analysis-report-for-2019-04-02/ & http://diagrammm.com/candlestick_chart

17. 19
‘Warming stripes’ by Alexander Radtke
https://www.warningstripes.com/

18. 20
‘Inflation Report’ by the Bank of England
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/inflation-report/2019/february/inflation-report-february-2019.pdf?la=en&hash=8487F69ED26692F4697D363A4E47111D1B0503D3

19. CHANGES
Discrete comparisons

20. 22
‘How Your State Generates Power’ by NPR
http://www.npr.org/2015/09/10/319535020/coal-gas-nuclear-hydro-how-your-state-generates-power

21. 24
‘2018 Midterm Election Turnout Shifts’ by Bloomberg Visual Data
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-midterm-election-turnout-shifts/

22. 25
‘Prepare for Landing’ by The Economist
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/12/08/why-ticket-prices-on-long-haul-flights-have-plummeted

23. 26
‘FinViz’
http://finviz.com/map.ashx

24. 27
‘Spring is springing earlier and earlier’ by Lauren Tierney/Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/early-spring/

25. 28
‘Election 2015: What did the opinion polls say about your seat?’ by the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2015/apr/20/election-2015-constituency-map

26. 29
‘As Arctic Ice Vanishes, New Shipping Routes Open’ by New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/03/science/earth/arctic-shipping.html

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‘How did 2015 voters cast their ballot in 2017 general election?’ by YouGov
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/06/22/how-did-2015-voters-cast-their-ballot-2017-general/

28. TIMELINES
Events & Relationships

29. 32
‘Rail delay scarf’ by Mrs Weber
https://twitter.com/sara__weber/status/1081950904671240192

30. 33
‘Every time Ford and Kavanaugh answered the question – and didn’t’ by Vox
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/28/17914308/kavanaugh-ford-question-dodge-hearing-chart

31. 34
‘Colorizing Walter White’s Decay' by John LaRue
http://tdylf.com/2013/08/11/infographic-colorizing-walter-whites-decay/

32. 35
‘Emotions’ by Periscopic
https://emotions.periscopic.com/

33. 36
‘Based on a True True Story?’ by David McCandless et al
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/based-on-a-true-true-story

34. 37
‘Living US Presidents’ by Ravi Parikh
http://www.ravi.io/living-us-presidents

35. 38
‘Dissecting a Trailer’ by New York Times
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/02/19/movies/awardsseason/oscar-trailers.html

36. 39
position | length
‘Boom and Bust’ by Andy Kirk
http://www.visualisingdata.com/2016/05/boom-bust-shape-roller-coaster-season/

37. 40
‘Tracking Super Bowl Tickets’ by Bloomberg Visual Data
http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2014-01-16/tracking-super-bowl-ticket-prices.html

38. CYCLES
Seasonality & Repetition

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‘365 Days of Light in Norway' by Steven Kay
https://flic.kr/p/99F7sR

40. 44
‘Weather Radials’ & ‘Partly Cloudy App’ by Raureif
http://www.weather-radials.com/ & http://partlycloudy-app.com/

41. 45
‘Climate Spirals’ by Ed Hawkins
http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/spirals/

42. 47
‘Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration’ by Pedro Cruz, John Wihbey,
Avni Ghael, and Felipe Shibuya
https://web.northeastern.edu/naturalizing-immigration-dataviz/

43. GEO-TEMPORAL
Where & When

44. 49
‘Why it is closing time for so many London pubs’ by Economist
https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/07/daily-chart-4

45. 50
‘Block by Block, Brooklyn’s Past and Present’ by Thomas Rhiel
http://bklynr.com/block-by-block-brooklyns-past-and-present/

46. 51
‘Coral cities’ by Craig Taylor
https://mapzilla-art.co.uk/2018/10/01/coral-cities-an-ito-design-lab-concept/

47. 52
‘Earth’ by Cameron Beccario | ‘Perpetual Ocean' by NASA/Goddard
https://earth.nullschool.net/ & http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/perpetual-ocean.html

48. 53
‘Ship map’ by Kiln
https://www.shipmap.org/

49. 54
‘Runner comparison’ by Berliner Morgenpost
Visualisation by Morgen Post https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/berlin-marathon-2016/

50. SEQUENCES
Trails & Multiples

51. 56
‘Bar chart race’ by John Burn-Murdoch
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1107552367795412992

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‘The YOLO Flip' by Interactive Things
http://iouri-in-sotschi.nzz.ch/en/1-star/

53. 58
‘Usain Bolt: 100 Meters Final’ & ‘Sochi 2014’ by New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/15/sports/olympics/usain-bolt-mens-100-meters-final.html & http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/02/11/sports/sochi-2014-interactive-stories.html?_r=0

54. 59
‘Big Mac Index’ by Neil Richards
https://questionsindataviz.com/2018/08/14/when-are-multiple-visualisations-better-than-one/

55. 60
‘The Most Unisex Names in US History’ by Nathan Yau
http://flowingdata.com/2013/09/25/the-most-unisex-names-in-us-history/

56. 61
‘The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of
Representatives’ by Mauro Martino et al
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0123507

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‘Gender Pay Gap’ & ‘Terrorists Eligible for Parole’ by The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2018/apr/04/gender-pay-gap-when-does-your-company-stop-paying-women-in-2018
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/03/surge-in-terrorists-eligible-for-parole-poses-threat-to-uk-security

58. 63
‘Small Multiples of NSIDC North Pole Sea Ice Extent’ by Greg Shirah
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4204

59. 64
‘How Popular is Your Birthday’ by Matt Stiles
http://thedailyviz.com/2016/09/17/how-common-is-your-birthday-dailyviz/

60. 65
Dale Irby of Prestonwood Elementary (Dallas, Texas) 1973-2012
http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/03/dallas-teacher-dale-irby-wears-same-yearbook-photo-outfit-for-40-years-3867044/

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‘The Sweetmans’ by Ken Griffiths
http://www.kengriffiths.co.uk/sweetmans/

62. THE DESIGN OF TIME
by Andy Kirk