{"id":25402,"date":"2021-09-20T17:41:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T21:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/?p=25402"},"modified":"2021-09-20T22:20:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T02:20:37","slug":"a-journey-through-the-universe-via-data-visualizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/visualization\/a-journey-through-the-universe-via-data-visualizations\/","title":{"rendered":"A JOURNEY THROUGH THE UNIVERSE VIA DATA VISUALIZATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Who are we? How’d we get here? Where are we going?<\/em> These existential questions serve not only a retrospection of ourselves as a collective species or individual but goes beyond us into the universe and the effects transverses back to the relationship we have with ourselves and this planet. Throughout our human existence, we have been curious to understand our solar system and the universe. The universe containing planets, stars, galaxies, dust clouds, and even time. It holds the story of our existence. Our ancestors have explored and documented our solar system and the universe. This timeline aims to give a history of that journey through data visualizations.

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Process<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I used University Knight Lab’s open source tool Timeline JS<\/a> which creates digital interactive timelines. The site provides an Excel spreadsheet template with column features that is then used to generate the timeline. The following features I used were year<\/em>, headline<\/em>, text<\/em>, media url source<\/em>, and background color<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I sourced 6 data visualizations that revolve around the solar system and universe from Understanding the World: The Atlas of Infographics by Sandra Rendgen<\/span>. The following images were then collected from Google Images. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Comparitive Magnitudes of the Planets by James Reynolds and Sons, 1846<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Transparent Solar System by James Reynolds, 1857<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The Universe by NASA, 2000<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Signs of Life by Nigel Hawtin, 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Relative Size of Planets to the Sun by NASA, 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Meteorites: 100 Years of Falling to Earth by Tiffany Farrant-Gonzalez, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n