Anna Turnage
The HistoryBrowser allows users to interactively browse historical events in a number of ways. It is a generative browser, allowing users to not only view preset collections of events, but to construct their own views of the events based on selected criteria. The HistoryBrowser makes it easy to construct complex queries about historical events, weaving maps, timelines, and data visualizations to encourage insight.
The HistoryBrowser is not a tool simply geared toward the delivery of information visually-- rather it is a tool for manipulating data in a visual manner so that new questions can be asked of that information. The difference is the same as that between watching a documentary and creating one: the user’s questions decide what visualizations the HistoryBrowser’s powerful tools will generate.
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