A Visual Data Storytelling Framework
While the consumption of visual information becomes a daily commodity integrated into our lives, data visualisation is dominated by dashboards and charts. The main contribution of this article is an advanced way to visualise data as a data story. We converged paradigms from digital storytelling, ser...
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| author | Yangjinbo Zhang Mark Reynolds Artur Lugmayr Katarina Damjanov Ghulam Mubashar Hassan |
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| description | While the consumption of visual information becomes a daily commodity integrated into our lives, data visualisation is dominated by dashboards and charts. The main contribution of this article is an advanced way to visualise data as a data story. We converged paradigms from digital storytelling, serious games, and data visualisation to turn data into useful insights. The creation, management, and analysis of data have been increasingly given more attention in industry and professional practices. However, the potential of packaging data and analytic results into easily digestible and visually explorable content intended for non-professional audiences has not yet been investigated to its full extent. We contributed towards overcoming the gap between data analytics and data presentation. By integrating a story-like environment and entertainment into data visualisation, we explore the possibilities of efficiently communicating data and insights to general audiences in a casual context. We present this modular approach to customising messages for visual data storytelling from an information and communication perspective, including a test prototype developed to illustrate our data storytelling framework. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-55354e8c824a4e198fa976a248d7c9b42023-11-24T15:36:29ZengMDPI AGInformatics2227-97092022-09-01947310.3390/informatics9040073A Visual Data Storytelling FrameworkYangjinbo Zhang0Mark Reynolds1Artur Lugmayr2Katarina Damjanov3Ghulam Mubashar Hassan4Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, AustraliaDepartment of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, AustraliaDepartment of Computer Science, Umea University, 90187 Umea, SwedenSchool of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, AustraliaDepartment of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, AustraliaWhile the consumption of visual information becomes a daily commodity integrated into our lives, data visualisation is dominated by dashboards and charts. The main contribution of this article is an advanced way to visualise data as a data story. We converged paradigms from digital storytelling, serious games, and data visualisation to turn data into useful insights. The creation, management, and analysis of data have been increasingly given more attention in industry and professional practices. However, the potential of packaging data and analytic results into easily digestible and visually explorable content intended for non-professional audiences has not yet been investigated to its full extent. We contributed towards overcoming the gap between data analytics and data presentation. By integrating a story-like environment and entertainment into data visualisation, we explore the possibilities of efficiently communicating data and insights to general audiences in a casual context. We present this modular approach to customising messages for visual data storytelling from an information and communication perspective, including a test prototype developed to illustrate our data storytelling framework.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9709/9/4/73data storytellingdata visualisationnarrative visualisationinteractive mediainformation designvisual communication |
| spellingShingle | Yangjinbo Zhang Mark Reynolds Artur Lugmayr Katarina Damjanov Ghulam Mubashar Hassan A Visual Data Storytelling Framework Informatics data storytelling data visualisation narrative visualisation interactive media information design visual communication |
| title | A Visual Data Storytelling Framework |
| title_full | A Visual Data Storytelling Framework |
| title_fullStr | A Visual Data Storytelling Framework |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Visual Data Storytelling Framework |
| title_short | A Visual Data Storytelling Framework |
| title_sort | visual data storytelling framework |
| topic | data storytelling data visualisation narrative visualisation interactive media information design visual communication |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9709/9/4/73 |
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