TimeFlow: analytical timeline and planning tool

Have you ever study the phenomenon or process, consisting of a large number of events? It can be life events arranged in chronological order, the situation is repeated at intervals the time for no apparent patterns or practices of interesting people, leading them to achieve certain goals. Or maybe you are planning a complex project? Probably, to assess the situation and the consequences must gather all the information and process it from different perspectives. TimeFlow developers see their free program, as a tool for creating and analyzing timelines journalists, but also an ordinary man finds in favor of the program for yourself.

TimeFlow - a program that automatically builds the timeline or calendar introduced events depending on the parameters characterizing them in the form of circles or bar-chain chart. That is, we set the start time, completion, the importance of a text description and keywords phenomena under consideration, and the program automatically places them on the timeline. Thus customizable format display data - point size of events will depend on the importance of the incident, ordering by group emphasizes isolation of dots with different colors. The points scattered on the timeline, are constructed in rows and friendly group diagonally or bar graph form. To navigate through the round dance data provided a navigation bar in the lower area of ​​the interface - here set the time frame of the events, increases or decreases the interval time.

Initially TimeFlow receives data on the parameters of the start of the working status of the project and description of the event. Additional fields entered by «Edit => Add Records». Entering data is available on the timeline and in tabular form convenient. If the data set already exists, then TimeFlow will import data in CSV / TSV format or allow to insert a common tabular data. export of information is also available in HTML format. The data obtained TimeFlow display not only in a time scale, but also on the calendar (second illustration). There you can configure filtering by date of start / end, or the importance of the event. That is, we are able to focus on the really important and what is happening in the interest of time span.

For more information about data visualization you can learn VizualData.ru - blog about Web services and programs designed to visualize and analyze the data. So on VizualData already touched upon the construction of a timeline in Excel on the example of the life of Steve Jobs - "How to build a timeline in Microsoft Excel?"And the ability to build interactive timelines in Google Docs -«We use the interactive timeline tables to Google Docs».

To summarize, it should be noted, TimeFlow - a great tool for the analysis of data, better understanding of the situation under study or project planning. The program makes a good impression intuitive interface, easy to handling information and further study of its graphic representation. TimeFlow easy to use, free, small (installation archive 1.16 MB) and run on a Mac or Windows operating system if installed Java.

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