GT CS 7450 - Storytelling in InfoVis

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1 Storytelling in InfoVis CS 7450 - Information Visualization September 30, 2013 John Stasko Topic Notes Purpose • Two main uses of infovis  Analysis – Understand your data better and act upon that understanding  Presentation – Communicate and inform others more effectively • Today we look at that second one more Fall 2013 CS 7450 2 Review2 Telling Stories • Data visualization can help to communicate ideas, summarize, influence, unite, explain, persuade • Visuals can serve as evidence or support Fall 2013 CS 7450 3 A Famous Example Fall 2013 CS 7450 4 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html Hans Rosling Gapminder 20063 They Had Him Back Fall 2013 CS 7450 5 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html 2007 Discuss • Why has this had such a big impact? Fall 2013 CS 7450 64 Characterizing the Area • Studied storytelling: Described topics as “Narrative Visualization”  How does this differ from traditional forms of storytelling  Reviews the design space  Characterizes genres  Describes a framework Fall 2013 CS 7450 7 Segel & Heer TVCG (InfoVis) ‘10 Case Studies Fall 2013 CS 7450 8 NY Times 20065 Design Space • Genre • Visual Narrative  Visual structuring  Highlighting  Transition Guidance • Narrative Structure  Ordering  Interactivity  Messaging Fall 2013 CS 7450 9 Genres Fall 2013 CS 7450 106 Observations • Clusters of different ordering structures • Consistency of interaction design • Under-utilization of narrative messaging Fall 2013 CS 7450 11 Approach • Author-driven vs. reader-driven • Common patterns  Martini glass  Interactive slideshow  Drill-down story Fall 2013 CS 7450 127 A Hot Topic Fall 2013 CS 7450 13 http://thevcl.com/storytelling/ http://flowingdata.com/2010/11/11/telling-stories-with-data-a-visweek-2010-workshop/ VisWeek 2010 Workshop Reprised again this fall Narratology Fall 2013 CS 7450 14 Interesting talk at workshop Jessica Hullman Univ. Michigan http://thevcl.com/storytelling/docs/jessica_hullman.pdf8 Journalism Angle Fall 2013 CS 7450 15 http://datadrivenjournalism.net Data Journalism Handbook Fall 2013 CS 7450 16 http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/9 Journalism in the Age of Data Fall 2013 CS 7450 17 http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/ Some Examples Fall 2013 CS 7450 1810 News Stories Fall 2013 CS 7450 19 Tufte praises the work of Megan Jaegerman at NY Times http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002w4 An Inconvenient Truth Fall 2013 CS 7450 20 Gore made extensive use of data graphics11 Job Losses Fall 2013 CS 7450 21 Controversial, see http://soquelbythecreek.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-does-obama-job-chart-really-mean.html Mariano Rivera Fall 2013 CS 7450 22 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/29/magazine/rivera-pitches.html?ref=multimedia12 Casualties of War http://www.cnn.com/homeandaway Fall 2013 CS 7450 23 VisualEyes Fall 2013 CS 7450 24 http://www.viseyes.org13 The President Going Interactive Fall 2013 CS 7450 25 2011 State of Union Address Side channel data visualizations accompanied speech Fall 2013 CS 7450 2614 Data Matters Fall 2013 CS 7450 27 http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html David McCandless McCandless Website Fall 2013 CS 7450 28 http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/15 More Visualization Stories Fall 2013 CS 7450 29 Aaron Koblin http://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_koblin.html Back to Where We Started Fall 2013 CS 7450 30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo16 Questions • How do these types of visualizations differ from “traditional” infovis? Fall 2013 CS 7450 31 Questions • Would you characterize these as information visualizations?  Consider some of the different examples Fall 2013 CS 7450 3217 Fall 2013 CS 7450 33 HW 5 • Commercial systems review  Any questions? • Due next Weds Oct 9 Fall 2013 CS 7450 34 Upcoming • Tufte’s design principles • Poster


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