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 |
| 28.04.25 | ||
| 05.05.25 Naveenkumar Gunasekaran and Sakshi Choudhary | Grouping, Framing, and Narrative Structures | Nachiketh Rajan |
| 12.05.25 Tabea Grellmann Kevin Kulot Diana Jeske | Narrative Visualization of Temporal Data Cartography Applications Cinematography Visualization (3D Vis und VR) | Harshit Kumar Tyagi Lukas Eichel Cinematography Visualization (3D Vis und VR) |
| 19.05.25 Sophie Moosmann Aishwarya Chincholi Vasant Madhav | Data Comics Annotation in Narrative Visualization | Diana Jeske Anjali Singh |
| 26.05.25 Bhosale, Shirin Rajiv Prajwal Sridhar | Climate Change Applications: Science Museums and Astronomy | Aishwarya Chincholi + Akshaya Josefine Becker |
| 16.06.25 David Busse Harshit Kumar Tyagi | Narrative Visualization from Tabular Data Narrative Visualization of Stock Data | Tabea Grellmann Prajwal Sridhar |
| 23.06.25 Debapriya Roy & Lucas Philpp? Noshin Nur Puthentheri Chalil | Tools for Creating Narrative Visualization Visual Communication, Visual Literacy as Basis for Narrative Visualization | Kevin Kulot David Busse |
| 30.06.25 Lukas Eichel & Josefine Becker | Freytag’s Pyramid | Naveenkumar Gunasekaran & Sakshi Choudhary |
| 07.07.25 Anjali Singh Nachiketh Rajan | Gut Feelings: Telling the Tale of Your Second Brain Authoring data-driven videos | Shirin Bhasale Debapriya Roy |
Material
Narrative Visualization Topic PresentationLiterature
Selected publications primarily from the following venues IEEE TVCG, ACM SIGCHI and CGF.