ChronoZoom: Big History with Big Data

There are thousands of digital libraries, archives, collections and repositories and no easy way to find these datasets for teaching, learning and research. To truly bridge humanities and sciences and pull them out of their silos we need a dynamic cloud based data visualization tool where educators, researchers and students can easily consume, compare and understand the history of the cosmos, earth, life and humanity. Where they can easily consume rich media sets like: audio, video, text, pdfs, charts, graphs and articles in one place and discover new possibilities. Seen at Microsoft Research’s TechFest 2012, ChronoZoom will enable:

• Transitioning effortlessly between scales of one year to billions of years.
• Putting historical episodes, events, and trends in context without sacrificing precision.
• Comparing vast amounts of time-related data across different fields and disciplines.
• Gaining insight and the ability to shape the future by better understanding the cause-and-effect interplay between disciplines.