The project aims at explaining the concept of Deep Time and understanding the cause-and-effect relationships that led to the Evolution of Life by using interactive Data Visualisations. The visualizations are Exploratory and Data-driven in nature. Deep Time refers to the Life of the Earth, that is accepted to be 4.56 billion years in age. The human mind can easily visualize time-scales of smaller range (thousands to tens of thousands). However, as soon as this scale is increased, this understanding diminishes. I break down entire Geologic Time into 8 chapters and use a Narrative and a Metaphor of 80 years of human life to bind these chapters together. I design different visualizations for each chapter; however, the semantics were kept constant throughout. To understand the effectiveness of an interactive visualization, I conduct a Quantitative Evaluation where I gauge how many Data Points a user interacts with in each chapter. The results were tallied with the time spent by the user to see if any relation was found.

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