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ENGAGED STORYTELLING
WITH INFORMATION
VISUALIZATION
Professor Kristen Sosulski, Ed.D
NYU Stern School of Business
@ sosulski
Story + Visuals =
Engagement
STORIES
Edward Segel and Jeffrey Heer, 2010
Presenter driven stories
• Linear ordering of content
• Prescribed message
Baseline Engagement
Techniques
• Build on prior knowledge
• Ask questions
• Seek audience input
• Personalize it! - Change from third person
to second person.
VISUALIZA
TIONS
How can we use visuals to tell
engaging data stories?
A picture is worth a thousand
words…
Creative Commons
Not all pictures are….
• Readable
• Interpretable
• Meaningful
• Relevant
Google Image Search
However, visuals are an efficient
tool.
We know visualizations can
be a powerful
communications tool in
data driven stories… How
do we get there?
Identify the
takeaway
Contextualize
findings
Present the key
numbers
Baseline Visualization
Techniques
Kristen Sosulski, 2016
To whom are we
communicating?
Humans
Underlying assumptions
Dual
channels
Limited
capacity
Active
Processing
Human information processing
system
Words
Pictures
Ears
Eyes
Sounds
Images
Verbal
Model
Pictorial
Model
Prior
knowledge
Multimedia
presentation
Sensory
memory
Working memory Long-term
memory
Richard Mayer
But, it is a translation process
Real world Data
Shapes
and colors
Nathan Yau
Representing data through
shape, size, and color
Techniques for using visuals in
presenter driven stories
• Annotation  highlight what’s important
• Animation  guide the pathway
Annotations
Reserve the use of
pre-attentive attributes as
cues for your audience.
COLOR
Annotations
Reserve the use of
pre-attentive attributes as
cues for your audience.
FORM
Annotations
Reserve the use of
pre-attentive attributes as
cues for your audience.
MOVEMENT
Annotations
Reserve the use of
pre-attentive attributes as
cues for your audience.
SPATIAL POSITION
Annotations
Highlight a data point
using a pre-attentive
attribute.
Annotations
Avoid highlighting every
data point.
Animation
Progressively reveal content
PANNING AND ZOOMING
Animation
Show time series data.
TEXT AND SIZE
Animation
Mark as specific data point
and see how it changes
over time
HIGHLIGHT AND POSITION
What if there is no presenter?
What is the role of the audience?
Audience driven stories
• No prescribed ordering of content
• Little to no messaging
• Free interactivity
Baseline Engagement
Techniques
• Enable the audience to build their own
narrative
• Provide locus of control in navigation
• Seek inputs
• Allow for comparisons
• Personalize it! - Change from third person to
second person.
Techniques for using visuals in
audience driven stories
Interactivity 
audience is the creator of the narrative.
Interface 
Audience controls the narrative
The visualization is now the interface.
The New York Times
Slider
Input field
Highlight
Filter
The New York Times
Interface + Interactivity
• Locus of control
– Navigation
– Details on demand
– Non linear structure
– Means for exploration
• Inputs for individualization and personalization
– Audience selected parameters
– Filtering
– Custom input
• Comparison for context
VISUALIZA
TIONS
ENGAGING
STORIES
ENGAGING
AUDIENCE
ENGAGED
Interested in designing
engaging visuals?
Design for Data
Visualization
live online seminar
Contact sosulski@gmail.com
Q & A
Thank You!
Prof. Kristen Sosulski
@sosulski | sosulski@gmail.com

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Engaged Storytelling with Information Visualization

Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. Premise for stories:
  2. Locus of control
  3. DC: Humans possess separate channels for processing visual and auditory information LC Humans are limited in the amount of information that they can process in each channel at one time AP Humans engage in active learning by attending to relevant incoming information, organizing selected information into coherent mental representations, and integrating mental representations with other knowledge
  4. This figure presents a cognitive model of multimedia learning intended to represent the human information processing system. The boxes represent memory stores, including sensory memory, working memory, and long term memory. Pictures and words come in form the outside world as a multimedia presentation and enter sensory memory through the eyes and ears. Sensory memory allows for the pictures and printed text to be held as exact visual images for a very brief time period in visual sensory memory. Arrow from pictures to eyes corresponds to a picture being registered in the eyes; the arrow from Words to Ears corresponds to spoken text being registered in the ears; the arrow from words to eyes corresponds to printed text being registered in the eyes. The central work of multimedia learning takes place in working memory. Working memory is used for temporarily holding and manipulating knowledge in active consciousness. For example, this presentation, you are able to hold some of the words I'm saying at one time or some of the boxes and arrows in your mind at one time. This kind of processing , where you are consciously aware, takes place in your working memory. The left side of the box labeled Working Memory represents the raw material that comes into working memory - visual images of pictures and sound images of words - so it is based on the two sensory modalities, called visual and auditory. The right side of the working memory box represents the knowledge constructed in working memory - visual and verbal mental models and links between them, this is based on the two representation modes, Mayer refers to as pictorial and verbal.