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Kindred Britain
An interactive scholarly work looking at British cultural elites connected by marriage and lineage. It provides three views: the network, a timeline, and the geography of the events its subjects took part in. Written entirely in D3 with a custom UI.
What went right
I really love the Stories feature that links views in the network to passages in the text.
What went wrong
Scott Murray, who designed the site, had more ambitious drawings for various UI elements, such as a teardrop shape that connected timelines, which I didn't have the D3 skill at the time to create. The geography view was just too limited.
The next version would have
I have it on good authority that there will be a next version, and wouldn't want to spoil it.