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: Thursday, 9:00 to 11:00
1. Lecture: 13.04.2023
Examination: student talk
ECTS-Credits: 3
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Topics and Dates
| Date | Topic | Reviewer |
| 13.04.23 | – (Preparation time) | – |
| 20.04.23 | – (Preparation time) | – |
| 27.04.23 | – (Preparation time) | – |
| 04.05.23 | – (Preparation time) | – |
| 11.05.23 | Topic 1: Freytag‘s Pyramid Topic 12: Applications: Astronomy | Topic 5 Topic 10 |
| 18.05.23 | Ascension of Christ | – |
| 25.05.23 | Topic 2: Authoring Data-Driven Videos Topic 11: Applications: Climate Change | Topic 1 Topic 12 |
| 01.06.23 | Topic 3: Grouping, Framing and Narrative Structures Topic 4: Data Comics | Topic 2 Topic 11 |
| 08.06.23 | Topic 6: Grouping, Framing, and Narrative Structures Topic 7: Narrative Visualization from Tabular Data | Topic 3 Topic 4 |
| 15.06.23 | – No Seminar (We are at a conference) | – |
| 22.06.23 | Topic 9: Applications: Interactive GeoViews | Topic 7 |
| 29.06.23 | Topic 5: Narrative Visualization of Temporal Data (Team Presentation) | Topic 6 |
| 06.07.23 | Topic 10: Applications: Stock visualizations | Topic 9 |
| 13.07.23 | Hot Topics in Narrative Visualization (Talk by Prof. Preim) |
Material
Narrative Visualization Topic PresentationLiterature
Selected publications primarily from the following venues IEEE TVCG, ACM SIGCHI and CGF.