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Data storytelling

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Storytelling and data visualisation

Can a chart tell a story?

When data equals people

When data relates to people

When data needs to be made relatable to people

Data communication

Cognitive load: introduction

Intrinsic cognitive load

Extraneous cognitive load

Germane cognitive load

Cognitive load and data storytelling

Cognitive load concepts for storytelling

The importance of visualisation titles

Guidelines for visualisation titles

Visual annotations: introduction

Visual annotations: highlights

Visual annotations: aggregation and distribution

Visual annotations: icons and images

Text annotations: introduction

Text annotations: anatomy

Text annotation stories

Labels and axis annotations

Responsive text annotations

Choosing a chart type for your story

Choosing charts: data types

Choosing charts: the message

Choosing charts: data size

Choosing charts: the audience

Choosing charts: the medium

How to introduce less common chart types

The above diagram

Explaining scatter plots

Logarithmic scales

More uncommon charts

Narrative visualisation genres: introduction

Magazine style narrative visualisation

Annotated chart narrative visualisation

Partitioned poster narrative visualisation

Flow chart narrative visualisation

Comic strip narrative visualisation

Slide show narrative visualisation

Film, video and animation

Interactive story structures: introduction

Martini glass story structure

Interactive slide show story structure

Drill down story structure

Story patterns in data

Data view story patterns

Narrative story patterns

Engagement story patterns

The inverted pyramid

The information seeking mantra

Anthropographics

Putting in real people

Putting the "you" in the headline

Coming full circle and cliffhangers

Combining with other media: data comics

Combining with other media: drawings and illustrations

Combining with other media: layout

Combining with other media: photoviz

Combining with other media: sound

Combining with other media: video

Scrollytelling: introduction

Scrollytelling: graphic sequence

Scrollytelling: animated transition

Scrollytelling: pan and zoom

Scrollytelling: moviescroller

Scrollytelling: show-and-play

Scrollytelling design variations

Building scrollytelling articles