tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post5838927286627013258..comments2024-03-28T18:39:59.184-07:00Comments on SearchReSearch: Answer: Know how to create a timeline? Dan Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603209997260423532noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-57573672271359042232016-11-16T22:54:37.803-08:002016-11-16T22:54:37.803-08:00have you done this since MIT quit hosting the simi...have you done this since MIT quit hosting the simile timeline project. I can't get it to work now on a timeline I had working in 2012, so I tried your recommendation but it doesn't work.gneissgirltxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15532965972575707663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-6049490623581515182016-11-16T22:50:20.176-08:002016-11-16T22:50:20.176-08:00I am trying to do this right now. Have you got thi...I am trying to do this right now. Have you got this to work since they moved simile timeline off the MIT website?gneissgirltxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15532965972575707663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-15634357562168680482015-09-03T08:39:27.244-07:002015-09-03T08:39:27.244-07:00Hello Jon TU, have you tried with TimeMapper? You...Hello <b> Jon TU</b>, have you tried with <a href="http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/create" rel="nofollow">TimeMapper</a>? You don't need anything, just add data on the template and that is all. Hope it helps.<br /><br /><b> Luis Viterbo </b>, I just read about this new Google docs feature. <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.mx/2015/09/templates-insights-and-dictation-in.html" rel="nofollow">Templates, Insights and Dictation in Google Docs</a> Now it is easy to find and use a template. How did you do with resume?<br /><br />Finally, as Dr. Russell says, if you are like me, you will enjoy this <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/google-launches-im-feeling-curious-fun-feature-fanatical-factfinders-2081252" rel="nofollow">Google Launches ‘I’m Feeling Curious,’ A Fun Feature For Fanatical Factfinders</a>Ramon Gonzalezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129830563029534511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-74229003180632889062015-09-01T21:26:46.031-07:002015-09-01T21:26:46.031-07:00Dan, In a perverse kind of way I am glad you too h...Dan, In a perverse kind of way I am glad you too had trouble getting these things to perform. I got TimelineJS time and again to the penultimate moment then it stalled, spinning its little box endlessly. Then I tried a few others. Finally TimelinePro --free for 14 days. First thing up it asked for stuff I could not answer. I gave up.<br /><br />All I wanted to do was a timeline using some genealogical data. Nothing worked. I reduced my efforts to 3 or 4 points on 1 person's life. Still no go.<br /><br />I should be as you point out straight forward to produce something this simple.<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />jon TUjonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06450649073262987652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-63793598572411116612015-09-01T15:31:37.001-07:002015-09-01T15:31:37.001-07:00Hi Dan and all fellow searchers
Even if I don'...Hi Dan and all fellow searchers<br /><br />Even if I don't have time enough right now to complete the challenges (to write down the results I find, mostly), I keep an eye on every week's new puzzle. This one was of particular interest to me, it's been a long time since I wanted to create a timeline about the french composer of the XIXth century, whom I specially like. Following almost the same path as yours I ended up trying to use <b>TimelineJS</b> but when it comes to overlapping <b>lasting</b> events (such as the life of a person) the display becomes very messy and useless (I wanted to know for example if Erik Satie could have seen and heard Gabriel Fauré playing one of his <i>sonates</i>) so I turned towards more complex tools such as Brian Croxall's Timeline (that is in fact a tutorial for MIT's <a rel="nofollow">Simile's Exibit timeline option</a>).<br /><br />The trick to get the connection between the spreadsheet in Google Docs and the Javascript script is to replace only the ID of the spreadsheet :<br /><br />in<br /><br />**link <br /> rel="exhibit/data" <br /> type="application/jsonp"<br /> href="<b>XXX</b>?alt=json-in-script"<br /> ex:converter="googleSpreadsheets" /** <br /><br /><br /><b>XXX</b> must be replaced by :<br /><br />http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/<b>the-id-of-your-spreadsheet</b>/od6/public/basic <br /><br />the ID being the scrambled suite of letters in the spreadsheet link given by Google Docs :<br /><br />https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/<b>1ElOb-iSq_lMH78xRP_nYY5aK0OwiOBAPTWNG7KWUycs</b>/pubhtml<br /><br />here the ID is <b>1ElOb-iSq_lMH78xRP_nYY5aK0OwiOBAPTWNG7KWUycs</b>. Et voilà, everything works just fine after that.<br /><br />And I get overlapping piled lines for the life of every composer, and the timeline is being updated every time I edit the spreadsheet. The work is still in progress, I'll post a link when I'm done.<br /><br />Philippe a.k.a. Passagerpassagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897589130110709598noreply@blogger.com