Chapter 7
Visual storytelling with data
Abstract
This chapter discusses how narrative visualization differs from other forms of storytelling and the key elements of story structure for telling meaningful data stories with data visualization. We explore storytelling paradigms and story psychology as the basis for establishing a framework for narrative data visualization.
Keywords
storytelling
data storytelling
data journalism
Zeingarnik effect
visual narrative
genre
“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it, all my life.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
First off, take a deep breath. We made it through chapter: Visual Communication and Literacy. I know the information was dense, but I assure you that an understanding ...
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