Telling Stories with DataSophie SparkesTableau Public – Team Lead EU

@sophie_sparkes

Why tell a story?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_ratehttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/upshot/compare-these-gun-death-rates-the-us-is-in-a-different-world.html?_r=0

“Though data visualization often invokes comparisons to storytelling, the relationship between the two is rarely articulated clearly” Segel and Heer 2010

http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2010-Narrative-InfoVis.pdf

Empathy and Stories

David Eaglelman, PBS

David Eaglelman, PBS

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/upshot/compare-these-gun-death-rates-the-us-is-in-a-different-world.html?_r=0

Empathy and Data Stories

Iraq: Deaths on the decline

http://graphics-info.blogspot.hk/2012/09/malofiej-20-look-at-our-participation.html

http://graphics-info.blogspot.hk/2012/09/malofiej-20-look-at-our-participation.html

Types of Data Stories

https://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ - Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories

What data stories can you tell?

http://dataremixed.com/2015/03/tapestry-2015-seven-data-story-types/

http://graphics.wsj.com/infectious-diseases-and-vaccines/

Which data stories were used?

http://dataremixed.com/2015/03/tapestry-2015-seven-data-story-types/

http://dataremixed.com/2015/01/avoiding-data-pitfalls-part-1/

Which data stories were used?

http://dataremixed.com/2015/03/tapestry-2015-seven-data-story-types/

http://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2015/sep/02/unaffordable-country-where-can-you-afford-to-buy-a-house

Which data stories were used?

http://dataremixed.com/2015/03/tapestry-2015-seven-data-story-types/

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/upshot/compare-these-gun-death-rates-the-us-is-in-a-different-world.html?_r=0

Which data stories were used?

http://dataremixed.com/2015/03/tapestry-2015-seven-data-story-types/

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_good_news_of_the_decade?

Thank you