CHAPTER 34
Data Visualization
Geeta Kashyap
CHAPTER INSIGHTS
Data visualization is considered as an integral part of data stories. Stories extracted from numbers should be visualized to enhance the audiences’ cognitive levels as general data journalism practice. With data journalism evolving as a separate news beat, data visualization is assuming greater importance. Data visualization, generally abbreviated as ‘dataviz’, adds aesthetic value to the data stories where data are visualized through their charts, graphs, maps, videographics, infographics and so on. It is considered as an interdisciplinary field which deals with graphical representation of the data used in stories. Thus, smart visualization skills are ‘nice-to-have skill’ for budding ...
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