Learn how to create a Timeline in Excel using a Column Chart, SmartArt, or an Excel Template. Timelines are essential for planning and communicating time-based data.

So it makes a lot of sense to ditch the resume altogether, and create a chart instead. Via Patrick Dubois comes two examples. The first, above, is a graphic timeline with a couple of charts.

A timeline of the future, based on speculative fiction Visualization by Giorgia Lupi and Simone Quadri/ Accurat. Originally published in Italian in La Lettura and in English on Brain Pickings ...

The timeline charts Billboard's hip hop singles chart from 1989 to 2015. The core of the visualization is a side scrolling timeline that slides through a month in about 12 seconds.