Introduction
In this week’s challenge, we are creating a timeline visual on a sine wave.
You can use your creativity to break out the timelines into series, through conditional formatting, offsetting separate shapes, or create different shapes using different trigonomic functions.
Alternatively, with small multiples.
Requirements
- Obtain the data from Kaggle and/or Wikipedia
- Create a list of dates in Power Query or using a calculated table with GENERATESERIES() (hint: as there are large number of dates, filter to a subset, e.g. >0)
- These dates will form the X-Values of your line chart
- Calculate the sine of X, this will form your Y-Values (hint as there are many dates you may need to multiply X by a fraction)
- Calculate the sine of the star trek episode data points
- Plot these X, Y and episode points on to a line chart and format accordingly.
Dataset
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/sujaykapadnis/star-trek-timelines?select=tlBooks.csv
Or
Supplement with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Star_Trek#Before_Common_Era
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