Visualizations

Experimental ways to read the same dataset. The canonical reading view remains the chronological timeline. These views are alternates, not replacements — each emphasizes a different question the data can answer.

Every view draws on the same 40 events, 70 sources, 209 citations, 28 people, 5 organizations, and 19 meetings. No additional inference, no aggregation, no derived metrics.

Radial timeline → Prototype

Time as angle, topic as ring, era as outer band.

Polar layout of the same 40 events. 12 o'clock is mid-2021; clockwise sweeps to mid-2026. Concentric rings group events by topic (operational innermost, governance outermost). The outer arc band shades by era. Dot size scales with citation count.

What it reads for: Density and timing — where in the timeline events cluster, and which eras are quiet vs. active.
What it does not imply: A single full sweep over five years; not a recurring calendar. Topics with few events (operational, electoral) look sparse by design.

Open radial timeline →

Entity-relationship network → Prototype

Force-directed graph of every entity and how it connects to every other.

40 events + 28 people + 5 organizations + 70 sources, positioned by their connections (citations, participation, authorship, affiliations). Node and edge filters let you isolate one slice of the graph. Density presets re-run the layout at looser or tighter spacing — same data, different visual breathing room.

What it reads for: Structure and centrality — who appears in the most events, which sources cluster around which stories, which people anchor each organization.
What it does not imply: A force layout positions nodes by edge topology, not editorial weight. Proximity means "shares connections," not "agrees with" or "supports." Many sources cite only one or two events and float at the periphery; that is the data, not an omission.

Open entity-relationship network →

Editorial note

Visualizations are interpretive surfaces. We try to keep them tied to the data the rest of the site already exposes: positions, colors, and sizes encode counts, dates, topics, or types — not credibility, importance, or alignment. Filters let you remove categories you'd rather not weigh in your reading; density presets change layout spacing without changing what is shown. Both views link back to the underlying event, person, source, or organization pages, where every figure remains source-cited per the standards at /about.