The decade that was — in chart form

Amy found me a great “op-chart” at the New York Times. It’s essentially a giant grid — on one axis is every year from the last decade, but on the other, it’s a series of things that may have defined a year: what was “newish” that year, for example, or who the “maverick” or the “champion” of the year was. And it’s all handled graphically.

So you can follow the grid down, for example, to see a full year in icons. Or you can follow the grid across, to see each year in sequence, but under the same subject heading.

I’ve put a slice of the chart above. See if you can figure out the years and the subject matters before you click here to see the whole thing.