Welcome to VisWeek 2011!

Telling Stories with Data: The Next Chapter

Organizers: 
Nicholas Diakopoulos
Organizers: 
Joan DiMicco
Organizers: 
Jessica Hullman
Organizers: 
Karrie Karahalios
Organizers: 
Adam Perer
Description

Our goal with this workshop is to bring together data storytellers from diverse disciplines and continue the conversation of how these different fields utilize each other’s techniques and articulate principles for telling data narratives. Our target participants are researchers, journalists, bloggers, and others who seek to understand how visualizations support narrative, stories, and other communicative goals. Participants may be designers of such visualizations or designers of tools that support the creation of narrative visualizations. Visualizations that serve as a “community mirror” and thus create opportunities for discussion, reflection and sharing within a social network are also suitable topics. While we are inspired by many visualizations that display personal histories and storylines, our focus is on visualization situated in storytelling contexts, not necessarily visualizations of stories.