This seminar teaches how visualizations of various types of data can be designed such that they are appropriate for non-experts, e.g., for broad audiences. It is inspired by recent developments in data journalism where online media are employed to create an interactive experience. The core idea is to employ principles from storytelling and narration to the explanation of data. The seminar topics, cover narrative genres, such as animation, slide sets, and data comics, and narrative structures derived from storytelling, such as the Martini Glass structure and Freytag’s pyramid. The topics also cover a wide range of applications, including molecular visualization, visualization of astronomy data, and visualizations related to business and finance data. Accordingly, different visualization techniques are provided, e.g., timeline-based visualization, various diagram types, but also multi-scale 3D visualizations.
Content:
Overview of Narrative Visualization
Concepts and Tools for Story Generation
Applications in climate research, molecular research, and astronomy
Applications in business and finance
Prerequisites:
Lecture in Visualization
Organizational Information
Attendance times: 2 SWS, weekly seminar, independent work: preparation of the talk, preparation of the seminar work
Date: Wednesday, 9:00 to 11:00
1. Lecture: 08.04.2026
Examination: student talk
ECTS-Credits: 3
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Topics and Dates
| Date | Topic | Presenter |
| 22.04.2026 | 1 2 | Aziz Zarrouki Nithyashree Arunachalam |
| 29.04.2026 | 3 4 | Kalyani Ajay Dawalkar Kusum Meghrajani |
| 06.05.2026 | 5 6 | Nazar Iqbal Yashashwini Sidramappa Awate |
| 13.05.2026 | 7 8 | Swadha Arora Anjali Manoj Kalwar |
| 20.05.2026 | 9 10 | Akshita Sakshi Shalini Kasana |
| 27.05.2026 | 11 12 | Lisa Marie Schülke Twisha Prakash Parmar |
| 03.06.2026 | 13 17 | Felix Bernhardt Mudit Khandelwal |
| 10.06.2026 | 15 | Indrajit Bhattacharyya & Shivnandini Ravikumar Chinnannvar |
| 17.06.2026 | 18 19 | Jayanthee Siva Perumal Tejaswini Raj Sri Raja |
| 24.06.2026 | 20 21 | Shubham Shivanand Kawalikai Jeevan George |
| 01.07.2026 | 22 23 | Hemanth Nagaraj Philipp Zittlau |
| 08.07.2026 | 24 | Atharva Junonikar & Ayushi Singh |
Material
Narrative Visualization Topic PresentationLiterature
Selected publications primarily from the following venues IEEE TVCG, ACM SIGCHI and CGF.