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Storytelling CS 7250 S PRING 2020 Prof. Cody Dunne N ORTHEASTERN U NIVERSITY Slides and inspiration from Michelle Borkin, Krzysztof Gajos, Hanspeter Pfister, 1 Miriah Meyer, Jonathan Schwabish, and David Sprague

B URNING Q UESTIONS ? 2

TRACE E VALUATIONS 3

R EADING Q UIZ Quiz — Storytelling 8 min limit ~10 min total 4

N OW , ON CS 7250… 5

S TORYTELLING 6

G OALS FOR T ODAY • Learn about the basic narrative elements of a story arc. • Learn about the three basic storytelling scenarios, and how that informs your visualization. • Learn the 7 genres of visual storytelling, and what the advantages of each one are. 7

Hall of Fame or Hall of Shame 8

Charles Joseph Minard, 1869 9

32 9.5 Iñigo Lopez, 2015 (note the ° R temp. scale is wrong) 10

M ARCH TO M OSCOW Charles Joseph Minard • French civil engineer (1781-1870) • Pioneer in using graphics in engineering and statistics • “March to Moscow” graph most famous work; considered by many including Tufte to be one of the best graphics ever Charles Joseph Minard, 1869 11

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/star-wars-in-one-chart/ 12

Schich & Martino, 2014

S TORYTELLING 15

Brent Dykes, 2016 16

Primary Sources for Today’s Lecture Kosara & Mackinlay, 2013; Segel & Heer, 2010 17

What is a story? • Story - an ordered sequence of steps with a clearly defined path through it. • Common components: - Characters - Setting - Plot - Conflict - Resolution 18

What is a story in visualization? • Story - an ordered sequence of steps with a clearly defined path through it. • Steps can contain text, images, visualizations, or video, or combinations. • Order is a key element of stories (usually linear in time). 19

What is a story in visualization? 20

What is a story in visualization? Exploration Communication Storytelling 21

Cholera Epidemic of 1854 Map by John Snow (physician) First to demonstrate cholera is a water-born illness 616 people died Communication Storytelling John Snow, 1854 22

Storytelling Scenarios Slidedeck online • Self-running presentation to a large audience: Self-explanatory; limited interaction; similar to a written story. Gapminder • Live presentation by a speaker in front of audience: Speaker can respond to audience, answer questions, pause story and interact. Business Additional layers/annotations, interactivity. meeting • Individual/small-group presentation of results: More interaction with audience; presentation leads to new questions; collect and consolidate information. Kosara & Mackinlay, 2013 24

“Narrative Storytelling” 58 examples Segel & Heer, 2010 25

“Narrative Storytelling” • Visual Narrative techniques: - Visual Structure - Highlighting - Transition Guidance • Narrative structures: - Ordering - Interactivity - Messaging Segel & Heer, 2010 26

Genres of “Narrative Data Storytelling” Note: not mutually exclusive! Segel & Heer, 2010 27

Genres of “Narrative Data Storytelling” Gapminder Note: not mutually exclusive! Segel & Heer, 2010 28

Author versus Reader-Driven Author-Driven Reader-Driven Linear ordering of scenes No prescribed ordering Heavy messaging No messaging No interactivity Free interactivity Segel & Heer, 2010 30

Author versus Reader-Driven “Martini Glass Structure” Starts as Author-driven Leads to Reader-driven exploration Segel & Heer, 2010 31

Author versus Reader-Driven Interactive Slideshow e.g., Gapminder Overall Author-driven Allows for Reader-driven exploration on each slide Segel & Heer, 2010 32

Author versus Reader-Driven Drill-down Story Overall Reader-driven Requires lots of advanced Authoring to create narrative paths Segel & Heer, 2010 33

NY Times, 2008 34

Hall of Fame or Hall of Shame 35

NY Times, 2015 36

NY Times (Video) NY Times (Flash) 37

NY Times (Flash) 38

Powers of Ten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_10 39

Eames Office, 1977 40

http://htwins.net/scale2/ 41