Historigraph
An advanced new form of visual to help you understand complexity.
What is it?
A historigraph demystifies complex events in a way that conventional data visualizations or text cannot do, allowing you to rapidly understand situations that you might otherwise find overwhelming.
How it works
In short, a historigraph lets you read history like maps let you read space.
If you are interested in the theory, here are two pieces I wrote:
Background
While working for Seattle Sport Sciences on AI-powered video analysis software, I had to create tools for understanding the "thinking" of the AI because our program had users who were both smart and very physically-minded. They weren't going to take on faith what a computer program told them. This meant they had to work in a partnership with the AI. The historigraph is just one of the many visualization tools I came up with.
Business applications
The historigraph was successfully implemented with Seattle Sport Sciences, resulting in a product that has sold to several European soccer franchises. The examples below are "consumer" versions that depict history in order to demonstrate the principles.
News media can use the historigraph to keep viewers informed of the big picture rather than relying on anecdotal stories.
Site traffic and content can be tracked over time to identify patterns and events.