Effectively designed data visualizations allow viewers to use their powerful visual systems to
understand patterns in data across science, education, health, and public policy. But …

In this article, I review considerations and techniques for approaching cartographic design
as visual storytelling. Stories, like maps, are a method for documenting and explaining, for …

A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of
intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose …

Controversial understandings of the coronavirus pandemic have turned data visualizations
into a battleground. Defying public health officials, coronavirus skeptics on US social media …

Natural language descriptions sometimes accompany visualizations to better communicate
and contextualize their insights, and to improve their accessibility for readers with …

Computational notebooks combine code, visualizations, and text in a single document.
Researchers, data analysts, and even journalists are rapidly adopting this new medium. We …

To ensure accountability and mitigate harm, it is critical that diverse stakeholders can
interrogate black-box automated systems and find information that is understandable …

Captions that describe or explain charts help improve recall and comprehension of the
depicted data and provide a more accessible medium for people with visual disabilities …

Storytelling: The Next Step for Visualization Page 1 Storytelling: The Next Step for Visualization
Robert Kosara, Jock Mackinlay Tableau Software rkosara@tableausoftware.com …

The authors take a closer look at how the visualization community has discussed visual
storytelling and present a visual data storytelling process, incorporating steps involved in …