storytelling with data - approach | skills
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Storytellingwith data
Amit Kapoor@amitkaps
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War Stories &Killer Charts
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Joshua Bell
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RhetoricLogos Ethos Pathos
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Humans are pattern-seeking
story-telling animals.
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analysis Synthesisnumbers Visualsargument Story
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What is a story or a narrative?
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narrative | nrtivnoun: Any account of connected events, presented in a sequence of written words or spoken words or
(moving) pictures.
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Events that happen in time
Linear Order
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Named people who have to face
decisionsPersonal Decision
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A disruption of a state of equilibrium
Change in Context
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A foregrounding of human experience
Elevation - Human Emotion
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One human life, closely observed, is
everyones life. In the particular is the
universal. Roger Ebert
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StorytellingVisualisation
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Think Stories, Not Charts
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ExplanatoryGrowth of the Dual Ecosystem
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ExploratoryWhere do I live?
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The Joy of StatsHans Rosling
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How can we create data-stories?
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80% perspiration, 10% great idea,
10% output. Simon Rogers
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Were bad at the why questions, which are
often much more interesting.
Amanda Cox
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Bad Aesthetics
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Good Aesthetics
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Above all else,do no harm
Tufte
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Overview first,then zoom & filter,details on demand
Ben Schniederman
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Types of Transitions
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Meaningful Annotation
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Powerful Narration
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There's always room for a story that can transport people to
another place. J.K. Rowling
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More Linear, More Storylike
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Guide the audience
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All stories are indeed structures,
but all the best stories are brittle
structures. Tadhg Kelly
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Linear Navigation
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Staging & Animation
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Ensure the interactivity has
Affordance. To afford means "to
give a clue" Dan Norman
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How to learn the skills to craft data-
stories?
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Art - Craft - Science
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craft | krftnoun: An activity involving skill in making or doing things by hand
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How do you learn a craft?
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Novice Expert
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Start with Basics
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Do Repetitions
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Conduct Deliberate Practice
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Focus on Mastery
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It took me a lifetime Pablo Picasso
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So, how do you start?
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Learning Styles
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We dont see things as they are, we see
them as we are. Anais Nin
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Understand your own strength
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Learning Data Visualisation &
Storytelling
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Start with Charting Simple Datasets
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Learn Basic Charts
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Design Basic Charts
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Expand your Chart Vocabulary
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Visualisation is the transformation of the symbolic into
geometric McCormick et al. 1987
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Think Geometric, Not Charts
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Encode with Shapes and Colour
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Position them out
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Learn the Grammar
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Play with Colour
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Understand Visual Perception
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Develop an Aesthetics Sense
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Learning to See
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The universe is made of stories, not
of atoms. Muriel Rukeyser
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Nature
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Architecture
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Abstract Art
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Sketch ideas
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Visualise Wide Datasets
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Visualise Large Datasets
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Visualise Spatial Datasets
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Move to Layering
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Multi-layered Static Visualisation
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Narrative Visualisation
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Dashboard Visualisation
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Interactive Visualisation
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Tools
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Data is just a clue to the end truth
Josh Smith
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See the world through a data lens
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Aesthetics is deeply associated with
emotions and feelings Giorgio Lupi
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Create beautiful aesthetics
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The data is just part of the story.
Jonathan Harris
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Tell stories that connect
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Closing the Gap
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