Audience

The shape of history is a project for interactive learners who want to know more about historical events. This project is for students that like to visually learn with moving parts and complex thinking. The data is set up in a way for students to understand where and when historical events took place. Students are to come up with their own interpretations of such events in order to understand the past and to take that knowledge for use in the future. The shape of history has failed to make it clear which age group this project was made for. Even though the original purpose of the interactive graph was made for kindergarten students, our team has since decided that the current online project is for high school or college students.

Disciplines

This project was made by Lauren Kline, a professor at Georgia Tech and a data visualizer, Caroline Foster, a data user expert, Erica Pramer, a quirky girl, and Adam Hayward, a full-stack developer and undergraduate researcher. The website was built using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.