I have always been fascinated by history and dynasties. This is what prompted me to build this interactive dataviz (with the help of AI - I could not code that alone).
It is a world family tree of all major ruling dynasties, from Ancient Egypt to the current day.
Presented in three views:
> Bloodlines: vertical position is birth year. Horizontal position starts in the person's nation but moves towards their relatives. The columns blur together as houses merge.
> Nations: Same time scale, but every nation is pinned into its own column and packed locally. A line leaving a column is a marriage or a birth that crossed a border.
> Ties: In this view, time is removed. Each nation is represented as a circle. The circles are spread out by a spring model where the pull between any two is the number of people whose parent, child or spouse sat in the other one. Nations that intermarried end up touching.
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Presented in three views:
> Bloodlines: vertical position is birth year. Horizontal position starts in the person's nation but moves towards their relatives. The columns blur together as houses merge.
> Nations: Same time scale, but every nation is pinned into its own column and packed locally. A line leaving a column is a marriage or a birth that crossed a border.
> Ties: In this view, time is removed. Each nation is represented as a circle. The circles are spread out by a spring model where the pull between any two is the number of people whose parent, child or spouse sat in the other one. Nations that intermarried end up touching.