Major Upgrade

I just finished publishing a pretty large upgrade to the timeline tonight. It's still a significant work-in-progress, but I've cleaned things up a bit, exposed some more information, and added a new way to view the timeline data: charts. As if it wasn't painfully obvious how much blackout and negative press is going on, now you can see the data presented as a pie chart :)

Changes worth noting are:

• The timeline now displays years, months and days so the data is divided up into digestible chunks rather than one long list.
  
  
• Rolling over an event highlights the event so it's a bit easier to focus/read. The mouseovers are a little obnoxious at the moment, sorry.
  
  
• You can now click on an event to see an expanded view with more information and explanation. Additional data will eventually also be displayed here.
  
  
• The list of events is now wider so there's less wrapping and the page is shorter.
  
  
• The submission form now happens in a dialog so it doesn't waste screen real-estate.
  
  
• A new "chart view" is available showing various different plots of the same timeline data. The charts are quick and dirty right now. They'll get cleaned up as soon as I can get to them, but I figured it was good enough to give you a general idea of how interesting this data can be.
  
  The most interesting one is the pie chart which shows that blackout and negative coverage far, far outpaces positive press. I have another chart I'm preparing that will display the relationship of positive / negative / blackout to media type (tv, radio, internet, etc) which will be interesting too.

As I've mentioned before, the timeline will eventually be more interactive. As it is being presented now will eventually be renamed to something like "list view" with the timeline view becoming that more rich interactive experience.

And yes... I know the site is screwed up in Internet Explorer. I'll get to that, but you should really be using another browser anyway ;)

More to come.