Chronology: Authors
User Guide
Navigate Visualization
To navigate the chronology, use your trackpad to scroll to zoom in and out of the chronology bars. Scrolling down zooms in, and scrolling up zooms out. Once you have zoomed in, you can drag up or down on your trackpad to move up and down the visualization.
View Tooltip & Details Page
To view the tooltip preview, hover over a bar. The tooltip displays basic author information, such as their name, lifespan, and number of years lived. If available, an author image is also displayed.
To access the author details page, click on a bar. This will take you to a new tab with the associated author details page within the Alabama Authors website.
Sort, Filter, & View
To sort the data available on the visualization, you can utilize the sort dropdown feature. This dropdown provides the following sort criteria: Alphabetically, Ascending Birth Year, Descending Birth Year, Ascending Death Year, Descending Death Year, Ascending Lifespan, and Descending Lifespan. The visualization updates according to the selected sort criteria.
To filter the data available on the visualization, you can utilize the filter dropdown feature. This dropdown provides the following filter criteria: All Authors, Authors with Links, Authors with Images, and Authors with Links and Images.
To change the source of the visualization data, users can utilize the view dropdown feature. This dropdown offers a 150 or 1700 option. These options correspond to the approximate number of data entries in each visualization. The 150 option utilizes the data from the Alabama Author collection data within the website. The 1700 option utilizes data that has been collected by the Alabama Authors research team but has yet to be incorporated into the website. The sort and filter options are more insightful on the 1700 view.