Storyboarding

3 minute story:

condensing your story and information int o a 3 minute speech

Big idea

condensing your storyline and goal into one sentence

Big Idea 3 Components:

1. must articulate your unique point of view

2. must convey what is at stake

3. must be a complete sentence

storyboarding

using post it notes or other means to map our the storyline of your dataset

Storytelling components:

1. the set up

2. the conflict

3. the resolution

The Set Up includes:

setting u p the story and ends with the first turning point

The Conflict Includes:

the bulk of the story, and the main character’s attempt to resolve the problem introduced in the first act

The Resolution invovles:

resolving the issue and includes a climax where the tensions are at their highest point

Ways to Persuade people:

1. conventional rhetoric (powerpoint slides, with facts and stats, intellectual)

2. through a story (using emotions)

Narrative Structure:

the order in which you communicate the story and data that makes sense and gets people to pay attention.

1. chronological

2. lead with ending

Reverse storyboarding

taking the final communication and writing down the main point from each page

Data Story approaches:

1. changes over time

2. drilling down

3. zoom out

4. contrast intersections

5. factors

6. outliers

all misleading visualizations are….

unethical, regardless of intent

common mistakes to avoid:

1. omitting the baseline

2. manipulating the y-axis

3. cherry picking data

4. using the wrong graph

5. going against conventions

6. lack of context / data (the small pox example)

omitting the baseline:

not starting at zero on your graphs

manipulating the y-axis

changing the bins to either lessen the severity of a trend or over emphasize it