Storytellingwith data

Amit Kapoor@amitkaps

War Stories &Killer Charts

Joshua Bell

RhetoricLogos Ethos Pathos

Humans are pattern-seeking

story-telling animals.

analysis Synthesisnumbers Visualsargument Story

What is a story or a narrative?

narrative | nrtivnoun: Any account of connected events, presented in a sequence of written words or spoken words or

(moving) pictures.

Events that happen in time

Linear Order

Named people who have to face

decisionsPersonal Decision

A disruption of a state of equilibrium

Change in Context

A foregrounding of human experience

Elevation - Human Emotion

One human life, closely observed, is

everyones life. In the particular is the

universal. Roger Ebert

StorytellingVisualisation

Think Stories, Not Charts

ExplanatoryGrowth of the Dual Ecosystem

ExploratoryWhere do I live?

The Joy of StatsHans Rosling

How can we create data-stories?

80% perspiration, 10% great idea,

10% output. Simon Rogers

Were bad at the why questions, which are

often much more interesting.

Amanda Cox

Bad Aesthetics

Good Aesthetics

Above all else,do no harm

Tufte

Overview first,then zoom & filter,details on demand

Ben Schniederman

Types of Transitions

Meaningful Annotation

Powerful Narration

There's always room for a story that can transport people to

another place. J.K. Rowling

More Linear, More Storylike

Guide the audience

All stories are indeed structures,

but all the best stories are brittle

structures. Tadhg Kelly

Linear Navigation

Staging & Animation

Ensure the interactivity has

Affordance. To afford means "to

give a clue" Dan Norman

How to learn the skills to craft data-

stories?

Art - Craft - Science

craft | krftnoun: An activity involving skill in making or doing things by hand

How do you learn a craft?

Novice Expert

Start with Basics

Do Repetitions

Conduct Deliberate Practice

Focus on Mastery

It took me a lifetime Pablo Picasso

So, how do you start?

Learning Styles

We dont see things as they are, we see

them as we are. Anais Nin

Understand your own strength

Learning Data Visualisation &

Storytelling

Start with Charting Simple Datasets

Learn Basic Charts

Design Basic Charts

Expand your Chart Vocabulary

Visualisation is the transformation of the symbolic into

geometric McCormick et al. 1987

Think Geometric, Not Charts

Encode with Shapes and Colour

Position them out

Learn the Grammar

Play with Colour

Understand Visual Perception

Develop an Aesthetics Sense

Learning to See

The universe is made of stories, not

of atoms. Muriel Rukeyser

Nature

Architecture

Abstract Art

Sketch ideas

Visualise Wide Datasets

Visualise Large Datasets

Visualise Spatial Datasets

Move to Layering

Multi-layered Static Visualisation

Narrative Visualisation

Dashboard Visualisation

Interactive Visualisation

Tools

Data is just a clue to the end truth

Josh Smith

See the world through a data lens

Aesthetics is deeply associated with

emotions and feelings Giorgio Lupi

Create beautiful aesthetics

The data is just part of the story.

Jonathan Harris

Tell stories that connect

Closing the Gap

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