Leveraging Text-Chart Links to Support Authoring of Data-Driven Articles with VizFlow

Sultanum, Nicole; Chevalier, Fanny; Bylinskii, Zoya; Liu, Zhicheng

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445354

Cited by 37 publications

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“…In contrast to their approach, we provide our stories on the web and not as video and have a broader focus than molecular visualization. VizFlow by Sultanum et al [43] instead focused on data-driven articles. The authors used text-chart linking strategies to create scrollytelling experiences and evaluated their approach with 12 authoring and 24 reading participants.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

ScrollyVis: Interactive Visual Authoring of Guided Dynamic Narratives for Scientific Scrollytelling

Mörth

Brückner

Smit

2023

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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Visual stories are an effective and powerful tool to convey specific information to a diverse public. Scrollytelling is a recent visual storytelling technique extensively used on the web, where content appears or changes as users scroll up or down a page. By employing the familiar gesture of scrolling as its primary interaction mechanism, it provides users with a sense of control, exploration and discoverability while still offering a simple and intuitive interface. In this paper, we present a novel approach for authoring, editing, and presenting data-driven scientific narratives using scrollytelling. Our method flexibly integrates common sources such as images, text, and video, but also supports more specialized visualization techniques such as interactive maps as well as scalar field and mesh data visualizations. We show that scrolling navigation can be used to traverse dynamic narratives and demonstrate how it can be combined with interactive parameter exploration. The resulting system consists of an extensible web-based authoring tool capable of exporting stand-alone stories that can be hosted on any web server. We demonstrate the power and utility of our approach with case studies from several diverse scientific fields and with a user study including 12 participants of diverse professional backgrounds. Furthermore, an expert in creating interactive articles assessed the usefulness of our approach and the quality of the created stories.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

ScrollyVis: Interactive Visual Authoring of Guided Dynamic Narratives for Scientific Scrollytelling

Mörth

Brückner

Smit

2023

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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“…Idyll [102] provides a "scroller" component for building scrolling narratives, allowing users to control document style, layout, and control pages by clicking or scrolling. Sultanum et al [103] explored a data-driven article storytelling authoring approach separating semantics, textual and graphical links, and storytelling layout forms. The researchers built VizFlow, a concept authoring tool for creating dynamic datadriven articles based on this approach.…”

Section: Scrollytelling and Slideshowmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(1) Design space: Outlines how to use automatic sequencing in design systems to guide non-designers in making structured decisions when creating narrative visualizations [97]. (2) Authoring tool: converts static data-driven articles (with text and charts) into dynamic articles using text-graph links [103]. (3) AI-supported tool: Tedric system workflow, which can be used to train presentation skills, reduce barriers to impromptu speaking and generate slideshow based on audience suggestions [104].…”

Section: Scrollytelling and Slideshowmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Does Automation Shape the Process of Narrative Visualization: A Survey on Tools

Chen¹,

Cao²,

Wang³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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In recent years, narrative visualization has gained a lot of attention. Researchers have proposed different design spaces for various narrative visualization types and scenarios to facilitate the creation process. As users' needs grow and automation technologies advance, more and more tools have been designed and developed. In this paper, we surveyed 122 papers and tools to study how automation can progressively engage in the visualization design and narrative process. By investigating the narrative strengths and the drawing efforts of various visualizations, we created a two-dimensional coordinate to map different visualization types. Our resulting taxonomy is organized by the seven types of narrative visualization on the +x-axis of the coordinate and the four automation levels (i.e., design space, authoring tool, AI-supported tool, and AI-generator tool) we identified from the collected work. The taxonomy aims to provide an overview of current research and development in the automation involvement of narrative visualization tools. We discuss key research problems in each category and suggest new opportunities to encourage further research in the related domain.

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“…Systems like Kori [31,32] and VizFlow [49] provide explicit linking strategies between the two modalities following design patterns that have emerged for data storytelling, narrative sequencing, and rhetoric [18,19]. While these systems demonstrate the utility of designing text and charts together, it is still unclear how to balance between the two modalities (e.g., is too much or too little text still useful?).…”

Section: Visualization + Text For Analysis and Storytellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Striking a Balance: Reader Takeaways and Preferences when Integrating Text and Charts

Stokes,

Setlur,

Cogley

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Leveraging Text-Chart Links to Support Authoring of Data-Driven Articles with VizFlow

Cited by 37 publications

References 62 publications

ScrollyVis: Interactive Visual Authoring of Guided Dynamic Narratives for Scientific Scrollytelling

ScrollyVis: Interactive Visual Authoring of Guided Dynamic Narratives for Scientific Scrollytelling

How Does Automation Shape the Process of Narrative Visualization: A Survey on Tools

Striking a Balance: Reader Takeaways and Preferences when Integrating Text and Charts

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