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Robert Kosara / September 18, 2017

Review: Putting Stories to Work and Out On the Wire

Two books I’ve read recently make good points about stories that apply to data stories, without the books being about data: Shawn Callahan’s Putting Stories to Work and Jessica Abel’s Out On the Wire. [Read more…] about Review: Putting Stories to Work and Out On the Wire

Robert Kosara / September 13, 2017

The Season of Storytelling: Kicking It Off With A Podcast

It’s (almost) Fall – a good time for telling stories! Jon Schwabish invited me to be on his PolicyViz podcast again to kick off its new season. And I have a long list of things to write about around that topic, too.

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Robert Kosara / June 4, 2017

Paper: Finding a Clear Path: Structuring Strategies for Visualization Sequences

How should you sequence information in a data story so it makes the most sense? Are some sequences better than others? Does time have to move forward or does it not matter? In a paper to be published at EuroVis next week, with Jessica Hullman at UW and my Tableau Research colleague Heidi Lam, we report on a pair of studies that looked into this. [Read more…] about Paper: Finding a Clear Path: Structuring Strategies for Visualization Sequences

Robert Kosara / October 6, 2013

Story Points

I consider presentation and storytelling the next step in visualization, after most of the focus has been on exploration and analysis so far. An upcoming version of Tableau will include a feature called Story Points, which supports presentation directly in the visualization tool. [Read more…] about Story Points

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  • Review: Putting Stories to Work and Out On the Wire
  • The Season of Storytelling: Kicking It Off With A Podcast
  • Paper: Finding a Clear Path: Structuring Strategies for Visualization Sequences
  • Story Points

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