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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
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Review
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Telling Stories
• Data visualization can help to communicate ideas, summarize, influence, unite, explain, persuade
• Visuals can serve as evidence or support
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A Famous Example
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http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
Hans Rosling Gapminder
2006
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They Had Him Back
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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?
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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
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Segel & Heer TVCG (InfoVis) ‘10
Case Studies
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NY Times 2006
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Design Space
• Genre
• Visual Narrative Visual structuring
Highlighting
Transition Guidance
• Narrative Structure Ordering
Interactivity
Messaging
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Genres
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Observations
• Clusters of different ordering structures
• Consistency of interaction design
• Under-utilization of narrative messaging
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Approach
• Author-driven vs. reader-driven
• Common patterns
Martini glass
Interactive slideshow
Drill-down story
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A Hot Topic
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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
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Interesting talk at workshop Jessica Hullman Univ. Michigan
http://thevcl.com/storytelling/docs/jessica_hullman.pdf
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Journalism Angle
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http://datadrivenjournalism.net
Data Journalism Handbook
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http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/
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Journalism in the Age of Data
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http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/
Some Examples
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News Stories
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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
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Gore made extensive use of data graphics
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Job Losses
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Controversial, see http://soquelbythecreek.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-does-obama-job-chart-really-mean.html
Mariano Rivera
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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/29/magazine/rivera-pitches.html?ref=multimedia
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Casualties of War
http://www.cnn.com/homeandaway
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VisualEyes
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http://www.viseyes.org
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The President
Going Interactive
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2011 State of Union Address
Side channel data visualizations accompanied speech
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Data Matters
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http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html
David McCandless
McCandless Website
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http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
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More Visualization Stories
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Aaron Koblin
http://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_koblin.html
Back to Where We Started
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
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Questions
• How do these types of visualizations differ from “traditional” infovis?
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Questions
• Would you characterize these as information visualizations?
Consider some of the different examples
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HW 5
• Commercial systems review
Any questions?
• Due next Weds Oct 9
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Upcoming
• Tufte’s design principles
• Poster session