The Curator Cards present a set of principles that
support the visualisation of data for participatory
science storytelling.
The Curator Cards can help decide which (aspects
of a) dataset are relevant to provide evidence for
a scientific story and which formats to choose to
communicate to which audience.
In today's data-driven world, data visualization plays a pivotal role in conveying complex information, making it accessible and understandable to a broad audience. Whether in the context of business, science, journalism, or academia, data visualization is a powerful tool that helps storytellers convey their messages effectively. In this essay, we will explore the role of data visualization in storytelling with data, highlighting its significance, benefits, and best practices.
2-day workshop in August of 2019 for NGO staff in Hyderabad.
Over the last decade, the social good sector has rapidly adopted data as a main tool to help accomplish their mission. Whether driven by funder requirements, or internal measurement-focused motivations, CSOs from every sector now use data in a wide variety of pro-social ways. However, this can be a struggle on limited budgets, in low data-literacy settings, and with communities victimized by data efforts in the past.
Come join us for a workshop on new approaches to using data within non-profit settings. We will explore a wider approach to involving communities in all stages of the data pipeline, inspirational low-tech examples, and ways to create and measure effective data storytelling. You’ll walk away with new participatory data activities, a tool belt for more creative and appropriate data storytelling, and experience applying the to your data needs and concerns.
Outcomes of the conference on the role of official statistics in an evolving ...OECD Governance
Outcomes of the conference on the role of official statistics in an evolving communication society
Presentation by Martine Zaïda, Communications Manager
Statistics and Data Directorate
Evidence-informed Workshop (OECD, 9-10 April 2018)
Data analysis has transformed the way organizations and individuals make decisions. As the volume of data continues to grow exponentially, the need for data-driven insights has become increasingly critical. However, raw data, no matter how extensive, can often be overwhelming and challenging to interpret. This is where the concept of data storytelling comes into play. In this comprehensive exploration, we will delve into the essence of data storytelling, its significance in data analysis, the key elements that constitute an effective data story, and practical tips for implementing data storytelling techniques.
The Curator Cards present a set of principles that
support the visualisation of data for participatory
science storytelling.
The Curator Cards can help decide which (aspects
of a) dataset are relevant to provide evidence for
a scientific story and which formats to choose to
communicate to which audience.
In today's data-driven world, data visualization plays a pivotal role in conveying complex information, making it accessible and understandable to a broad audience. Whether in the context of business, science, journalism, or academia, data visualization is a powerful tool that helps storytellers convey their messages effectively. In this essay, we will explore the role of data visualization in storytelling with data, highlighting its significance, benefits, and best practices.
2-day workshop in August of 2019 for NGO staff in Hyderabad.
Over the last decade, the social good sector has rapidly adopted data as a main tool to help accomplish their mission. Whether driven by funder requirements, or internal measurement-focused motivations, CSOs from every sector now use data in a wide variety of pro-social ways. However, this can be a struggle on limited budgets, in low data-literacy settings, and with communities victimized by data efforts in the past.
Come join us for a workshop on new approaches to using data within non-profit settings. We will explore a wider approach to involving communities in all stages of the data pipeline, inspirational low-tech examples, and ways to create and measure effective data storytelling. You’ll walk away with new participatory data activities, a tool belt for more creative and appropriate data storytelling, and experience applying the to your data needs and concerns.
Outcomes of the conference on the role of official statistics in an evolving ...OECD Governance
Outcomes of the conference on the role of official statistics in an evolving communication society
Presentation by Martine Zaïda, Communications Manager
Statistics and Data Directorate
Evidence-informed Workshop (OECD, 9-10 April 2018)
Data analysis has transformed the way organizations and individuals make decisions. As the volume of data continues to grow exponentially, the need for data-driven insights has become increasingly critical. However, raw data, no matter how extensive, can often be overwhelming and challenging to interpret. This is where the concept of data storytelling comes into play. In this comprehensive exploration, we will delve into the essence of data storytelling, its significance in data analysis, the key elements that constitute an effective data story, and practical tips for implementing data storytelling techniques.
Understanding your audience and considering them in your design is essential for building great visualizations. This deck will walk you through the critical steps for identifying and understanding your audience, and developing a complex visualization storyboard to share your message.
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The Data Explorer is an online tool that allows the user to create
stories using real world data around a chosen topic. It can be used
to make new connections between different datasets, to provide a
broader perspective on a relevant dataset and to understand how
scientific data relates to the user’s environment.
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Data Storytelling: What It Is, Why It Matters
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8 Non-Tech Skills IT Pros Need To Succeed
(Click image for larger view and slideshow.)
Organizations can do a lot more with their data if they understand it better than they do. While businesses continue to invest dollars in business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools, they aren't necessarily getting the information they need to improve business decision-making.
Data visualizations
help by transforming complex information into something easier to understand. However, two people can interpret the same data visualization differently. Notably, data visualizations tend to answer "what" questions, but they don't tend to explain the "why," or provide other contextual information. Data storytelling does exactly that.
"Data storytelling weaves data and visualizations into a narrative tailored to a specific audience in order to convey credibility in the analytical approach, confidence in the results, and a compelling set of insights that is actionable to the audience." said Ryan Fuller, general manager at Microsoft and former CEO and cofounder of enterprise analytics company VoloMetrix, in an interview. "The narrative is the key vehicle to convey insights, and the visualizations are important proof points to back up the narrative."
Executives, managers, and employees have always told stories as part of their everyday work experience, but they are increasingly being required to use data to support their points of view, claims, and recommendations. The danger, of course, is data can be tortured into saying almost anything.
"One of the biggest mistakes is trying to fit the data to the story, which often results in a jumbled narrative that doesn't arrive at a compelling conclusion," said Francois Ajenstat, VP of product development at BI and analytics solution provider
Tableau
, in an interview. "Always start with the data, then build your story around it, rather than vice versa."
After speaking with experts in data science and analytics, we've developed the following four tips to help guide your data storytelling.
1. General Storytelling Rules Apply
Effective data storytelling is a lot like storytelling generally. The data story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. It should also include a thesis (or a hypothesis), supporting facts (data), a logical structure, and a compelling presentation. Yet, all too often, those responsible for analyzing data are unable to present it in a way that's meaningful to the audience.
"A common mistake is spending too much time on the technical aspect or methodology and not providing much creativity in pointing out how the data can help the business," said David Liebskind, VP of anal.
Future of education project overview oct 2018 lrFuture Agenda
Future of Education
The broadening world of education is undergoing several major shifts. Driven in part by technology innovation and new business models, the learning process is being reinvented and there is a transformation of education economics and outcomes. Alongside this, there are government imperatives to improve access and address the growing requirement for flexible knowledge workers with transferable skills who can adapt to the changing job market. An ageing workforce also means that there is an increasing need for lifelong learning and re-skilling. In addition there is an increasing demand for a more personalised, immersive and mobile learning experience. All this is challenging the traditional expectations around higher education and the role that universities should play. While countries such as Finland and Singapore are consistently seen as leaders in the field, other nations are trying hard to catch up.
Ahead of a series of global expert events during 2019, this is an overview of the Future of Education project. It provides some background on Future Agenda and preceding multi-nation programmes, highlights some of the questions being raised and outlines options for organisations around the world to get involved. Different governments, technology companies, universities and education service providers are collaborating to support this programme that will develop a clear, shared and detailed view of how the future of education may unfold. If you would like to join in and host one of these events in your region, do let us know (tim.jones@futureagenda.org) and we can integrate that into the planning.
Telling stories about (re)search: research practices reconfigured by digital ...Berber Hagedoorn
Paper "Telling stories about (re)search: research practices reconfigured by digital search technologies", Sabrina Sauer & Berber Hagedoorn, EASST conference 2018: Meetings – Making Science, Technology and Society together, 27 July 2018, Lancaster University, Lancaster
Presentation for the Childrens Centre and Extended Schools conference (24/06/08). Focuses on the need for the public sector to provide quality information to citizens to support them in the choices they make.
Data is a powerful thing. When it's used to tell a compelling story, data becomes unforgettable. Stories bring data to life. And, if you have data to analyze, you have a story to tell, whether it’s diagnosing budget issues or explaining zoning laws.
• Tell meaningful stories that resonate with citizens, journalists, and analysts
• Define the characteristics of a data-driven story
• Create different story types based on different analytical methods
• Make stories personal and emotional for your audience
The SYNOPSIS project concerns Storytelling and Fundraising for Cultural Heritage professionals.
Cultural heritage covers a variety of activities, and a system of values, traditions, knowledge, and lifestyles that characterise society.
The heritage sector has to deal with new challenges and it is therefore necessary to develop new professionalism, able to promote and support cultural heritage as it improves not only the overall economic growth and employment, but also social cohesion and environmental sustainability.
Storytelling and fundraising skills assume a fundamental role in connecting the past to the future. Cultural Heritage storytelling is concerned with “communicating through stories”, creating narratives through which a cultural heritage enters into an emphatic relationship with people, managing to arouse public emotion. The purpose is to engage people to protect, exploit cultural heritage, and support it financially.
This presentation explores digital storytelling and used in the training programme
Infographics for Nonprofits - Forefront Member Breakfast SeriesForefront
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Ross Wilkinson - Data Publication: Australian and Global Policy DevelopmentsWiley
Australia invests $AUD1-2B per annum in research data. Like most countries, it wants to get the best return possible on this data. Europe is spending E1.4B on their open data “pilot”. This means the data should be FAIR: findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. Part of this is that data should be routinely “published” and available in a “data repository”. But what does this mean?
Ross Wilkinson
CEO, Australian National Data Service
Presented at the 2015 Wiley Publishing Seminar, 5 November, Melbourne, Australia.
Understanding your audience and considering them in your design is essential for building great visualizations. This deck will walk you through the critical steps for identifying and understanding your audience, and developing a complex visualization storyboard to share your message.
How to Entertain audiences using data led content - Trend Report Spring 2015infogr8
In this seasons trend report, we open the lens to best practice campaigns from across the digital landscape whilst seeking opinions from the data visualisation community on the hot trends coming our way. Campaigns include airbnb, UNESCO, Virgin, IBM, Nike and some exploratory thinking on Tesla. Thought leading opinions from the likes of Alberto Cairo, Georgia Lupi, Andy Kirk.
The Data Explorer is an online tool that allows the user to create
stories using real world data around a chosen topic. It can be used
to make new connections between different datasets, to provide a
broader perspective on a relevant dataset and to understand how
scientific data relates to the user’s environment.
Why does telling a story with your data matters Explain the impo.docxfranknwest27899
Why does telling a story with your data matters? Explain the importance of accurate data in today's business environment.
Data Storytelling: What It Is, Why It Matters
Telling a compelling story with your data helps you get your point across effectively. Here are four tips to keep your data from getting lost in translation.
8 Non-Tech Skills IT Pros Need To Succeed
(Click image for larger view and slideshow.)
Organizations can do a lot more with their data if they understand it better than they do. While businesses continue to invest dollars in business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools, they aren't necessarily getting the information they need to improve business decision-making.
Data visualizations
help by transforming complex information into something easier to understand. However, two people can interpret the same data visualization differently. Notably, data visualizations tend to answer "what" questions, but they don't tend to explain the "why," or provide other contextual information. Data storytelling does exactly that.
"Data storytelling weaves data and visualizations into a narrative tailored to a specific audience in order to convey credibility in the analytical approach, confidence in the results, and a compelling set of insights that is actionable to the audience." said Ryan Fuller, general manager at Microsoft and former CEO and cofounder of enterprise analytics company VoloMetrix, in an interview. "The narrative is the key vehicle to convey insights, and the visualizations are important proof points to back up the narrative."
Executives, managers, and employees have always told stories as part of their everyday work experience, but they are increasingly being required to use data to support their points of view, claims, and recommendations. The danger, of course, is data can be tortured into saying almost anything.
"One of the biggest mistakes is trying to fit the data to the story, which often results in a jumbled narrative that doesn't arrive at a compelling conclusion," said Francois Ajenstat, VP of product development at BI and analytics solution provider
Tableau
, in an interview. "Always start with the data, then build your story around it, rather than vice versa."
After speaking with experts in data science and analytics, we've developed the following four tips to help guide your data storytelling.
1. General Storytelling Rules Apply
Effective data storytelling is a lot like storytelling generally. The data story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. It should also include a thesis (or a hypothesis), supporting facts (data), a logical structure, and a compelling presentation. Yet, all too often, those responsible for analyzing data are unable to present it in a way that's meaningful to the audience.
"A common mistake is spending too much time on the technical aspect or methodology and not providing much creativity in pointing out how the data can help the business," said David Liebskind, VP of anal.
Future of education project overview oct 2018 lrFuture Agenda
Future of Education
The broadening world of education is undergoing several major shifts. Driven in part by technology innovation and new business models, the learning process is being reinvented and there is a transformation of education economics and outcomes. Alongside this, there are government imperatives to improve access and address the growing requirement for flexible knowledge workers with transferable skills who can adapt to the changing job market. An ageing workforce also means that there is an increasing need for lifelong learning and re-skilling. In addition there is an increasing demand for a more personalised, immersive and mobile learning experience. All this is challenging the traditional expectations around higher education and the role that universities should play. While countries such as Finland and Singapore are consistently seen as leaders in the field, other nations are trying hard to catch up.
Ahead of a series of global expert events during 2019, this is an overview of the Future of Education project. It provides some background on Future Agenda and preceding multi-nation programmes, highlights some of the questions being raised and outlines options for organisations around the world to get involved. Different governments, technology companies, universities and education service providers are collaborating to support this programme that will develop a clear, shared and detailed view of how the future of education may unfold. If you would like to join in and host one of these events in your region, do let us know (tim.jones@futureagenda.org) and we can integrate that into the planning.
Telling stories about (re)search: research practices reconfigured by digital ...Berber Hagedoorn
Paper "Telling stories about (re)search: research practices reconfigured by digital search technologies", Sabrina Sauer & Berber Hagedoorn, EASST conference 2018: Meetings – Making Science, Technology and Society together, 27 July 2018, Lancaster University, Lancaster
Presentation for the Childrens Centre and Extended Schools conference (24/06/08). Focuses on the need for the public sector to provide quality information to citizens to support them in the choices they make.
Data is a powerful thing. When it's used to tell a compelling story, data becomes unforgettable. Stories bring data to life. And, if you have data to analyze, you have a story to tell, whether it’s diagnosing budget issues or explaining zoning laws.
• Tell meaningful stories that resonate with citizens, journalists, and analysts
• Define the characteristics of a data-driven story
• Create different story types based on different analytical methods
• Make stories personal and emotional for your audience
The SYNOPSIS project concerns Storytelling and Fundraising for Cultural Heritage professionals.
Cultural heritage covers a variety of activities, and a system of values, traditions, knowledge, and lifestyles that characterise society.
The heritage sector has to deal with new challenges and it is therefore necessary to develop new professionalism, able to promote and support cultural heritage as it improves not only the overall economic growth and employment, but also social cohesion and environmental sustainability.
Storytelling and fundraising skills assume a fundamental role in connecting the past to the future. Cultural Heritage storytelling is concerned with “communicating through stories”, creating narratives through which a cultural heritage enters into an emphatic relationship with people, managing to arouse public emotion. The purpose is to engage people to protect, exploit cultural heritage, and support it financially.
This presentation explores digital storytelling and used in the training programme
Infographics for Nonprofits - Forefront Member Breakfast SeriesForefront
Subtitled, "When Good Fact Sheets Go Bad," Delia Coleman and Kathleen Murphy of Forefront discuss the do's and don'ts of nonprofit infographics. This deck covers the basics of visual storytelling, proper data use, and design principles for non-designers.
Ross Wilkinson - Data Publication: Australian and Global Policy DevelopmentsWiley
Australia invests $AUD1-2B per annum in research data. Like most countries, it wants to get the best return possible on this data. Europe is spending E1.4B on their open data “pilot”. This means the data should be FAIR: findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. Part of this is that data should be routinely “published” and available in a “data repository”. But what does this mean?
Ross Wilkinson
CEO, Australian National Data Service
Presented at the 2015 Wiley Publishing Seminar, 5 November, Melbourne, Australia.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Safalta Digital marketing institute in Noida, provide complete applications that encompass a huge range of virtual advertising and marketing additives, which includes search engine optimization, virtual communication advertising, pay-per-click on marketing, content material advertising, internet analytics, and greater. These university courses are designed for students who possess a comprehensive understanding of virtual marketing strategies and attributes.Safalta Digital Marketing Institute in Noida is a first choice for young individuals or students who are looking to start their careers in the field of digital advertising. The institute gives specialized courses designed and certification.
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A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
1. This method has been developed within ParCos. This project has received funding from the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 872500.
Storyteller
How to tell your
scientific data story
to a wide audience?
2. 2
Index
About the storyteller 3
What? 4
For whom? 4
This document serves as an introduction
to ParCos’ Storyteller 5
Why is telling data stories important? 6
For whom is telling data stories important? 7
The five-steps approach 8
Storyteller sets out five steps to help you
with the construction of your data story 9
1. Finding the data 10
2. Finding the data story 11
3. Telling the data story 12
4. Presenting the data story 13
5. Involving the reader 14
Examples of the different levels
of involvement 15
Find out more 17
Contact 18
4. 4
BACK
TO
INDEX
About
the
Storyteller
What?
The Storyteller is a guidebook designed to assist in the process of
telling stories with data. In five steps, the interactive PDF guides the
user through this process, from searching the data to identifying a
relevant story and from choosing a fitting story structure to exploring
ways of presenting it. It concludes with different stages of audience
involvement.
PDF Guidebook
For whom?
The guidebook helps anyone who wants to learn more about different
considerations that are important for participatory and inclusive
data storytelling.
5. 5
BACK
TO
INDEX
About
the
Storyteller
This document serves as an introduction
to ParCos’ Storyteller
Storyteller is a tool designed to assist you in your process of telling
stories with data.
In five steps, the interactive pdf guides you through this process from
searching the data to identifying a relevant story and from choosing a
fitting narrative structure to exploring ways of presenting it. It concludes
with different stages of audience engagement.
By following this five-step approach, you will be encouraged to reflect on
various considerations that are of importance for telling a participative
and inclusive science/data story.
6. 6
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TO
INDEX
About
the
Storyteller
Why is telling data stories important?
Drawing from the insight that data storytelling helps tackling misinformation by stimulating
data literacy skills, Storyteller helps you with:
Costera Meijer, I. (2013). WHEN NEWS HURTS. Journalism Studies, 14(1), 13–28.
Wolff, A., Gooch, D., Cavero Montaner, J. J., Rashid, U. & Kortuem, G. (2016). Creating an Understanding of
Data Literacy for a Data-driven Society. The Journal of Community Informatics, 12(3).
Fostering trust with
the audience by
revealing the data
behind the story.
Presenting the story in
a way that allows readers
to further explore data
for themselves.
Embedding data
representations that
incite interaction of
the audience.
7. 7
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TO
INDEX
About
the
Storyteller
For whom is telling data stories important?
A science communicator
A (science/data) journalist
A media or communications professional
who is concerned with scientific issues
Involved in engaging local communities
with data issues
Interested in telling stories with data
for other reasons
IF YOU ARE…
THEN…
this tool serves
your potential
needs!
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TO
INDEX
The
five-steps
approach
Storyteller helps you find the data. It provides details to:
• Explore existing data sources
• Gather data yourself
• Ask the audience to contribute data
For instance, ‘Wat een kopje koffie’ zegt over de prijsverschillen in Nederland.
Don’t forget to share those data sources and how the data is collected (methods).
1. Finding the data
11. 11
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TO
INDEX
The
five-steps
approach
Storyteller helps you decide whether the data or the story should be the starting point.
In reality, this is a non-linear process in which both alternate.
2. Finding the data story
Data Analyst
Explore &Analyze
TELL A STORY
MAKE A STORY
EXPLORE DATA
Data Experts
Scripter Presenter & Audience
Order story pieces
Order story pieces
Story Material
Editor
Build
presentation
Share
story
Story Pieces Plot Shared Story
Make logical
connection
Gather facts
Graphic: Lee, B., Riche, N. H., Isenberg, P. & Carpendale, S. (2015). More Than Telling a Story:
transforming Data into Visually Shared Stories. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 35(5), 84–90.
Received Story
Target
Audience
Settings
Medium
External Factors
Provide
input
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The
five-steps
approach
THE MARTINI GLASS
Similar to the traditional
three-act story structure
• Starts with an ‘open’ interface
• Followed by a linear narrative
• Ends with an ‘open’ exploration
of data
THE SLIDESHOW
Multiple three-act story structures
• Sequentially offers linear storylines
switched with interaction points
• Set out the different storylines
one by one
• Create a clear overview of
complex topics
THE DRILL-DOWN
Most open-ended structure
• User decides how to explore
the story
• Present storylines that
are coherently connected
• No chronological order
3. Telling the data story
Storyteller presents three possible narrative structures
for participative science communications
Graphics: Segel, E. & Heer, J. (2010). Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data. IEEE transactions on
Visualization and Computer Graphics, 16(6), 1139–1148.
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INDEX
The
five-steps
approach
Storyteller presents different ways
in how visuals, sound, or other sensory
aspects can support the story.
You’ll be encouraged to use traditional story structures
next to more creative and innovative presentation
formats, like audio or by using everyday objects.
4. Presenting the data story
NAPA
CARDS
can help you
decide!
See: http://napa-cards.net/
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TO
INDEX
The
five-steps
approach
Storyteller introduces you to different
levels of participation in data storytelling,
ranging from no participation (consuming)
to actively participating by contributing
stories.
Most importantly, Storyteller helps you trigger
active participation to truly facilitate data literacy
skills and combat misinformation.
5. Involving the reader
none
low
high
DIFFERENT
LEVELS
OF
INVOLVEMENT
Add data storyline
Add data to storyline
Interpret data to
progress storyline
Interpret data to
discover storyline
Consume data story
A
B
C
D
E
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TO
INDEX
Involving
the
reader
Add data storyline
A
Add data to storyline
B
Interpret data to
progress storyline
C
Examples of the different levels of involvement
none
low
high
Add data
storyline
Add data
to storyline
Interpret data
to progress
storyline
Interpret data
to discover
storyline
Consume
data story
A
B
C
D
E