Comic There is a great xkcd about plotting the relationships of characters in a movie. I find it a very elegant way to present information that is otherwise a complicated network of changing relationships. Primer Of course, the punchline is the movie Primer which involves a substantial amount of time travel. It’s just a bunch of scribbles. Ha Ha. Back when I first watched the movie (2011?), I stumbled upon this chart explaining the timelines.

travels I wanted to make a digital version of one of large maps where you put actual pins to show where you’ve been. Basemap makes that pretty easy. My code is on GitHub: travelmap.py Here is what the Raw data looks like: Year State/Country Trip/Path Latitude Longitude 1987 Illinois Home 41.439691 -88.949886 1990 Wisconsin Dells 43.627705 -89.773422 1997 Wisconsin I90 43.51265 -89.530689 2014 Montana Bozeman 45.713946 -111.068216 2015 Brazil Rio De Jenaro -22.