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

The increasing scale and availability of digital data provides an extraordinary resource for
informing public policy, scientific discovery, business strategy, and even our personal lives …

Organizations rely on data analysts to model customer engagement, streamline operations,
improve production, inform business decisions, and combat fraud. Though numerous …

We introduce the Word Tree, a new visualization and information-retrieval technique aimed
at text documents. A word tree is a graphical version of the traditional" keyword-in-context" …

Personal informatics research helps people track personal data for the purposes of self-
reflection and gaining self-knowledge. This field, however, has predominantly focused on …

We present TopicNets, a Web-based system for visual and interactive analysis of large sets
of documents using statistical topic models. A range of visualization types and control …

Public displays and projections are becoming increasingly available in various informal
urban settings. However, their potential impact on informing and engaging citizens on …

We present the design and evaluation of MyPosition, a public display in the form of a large
projection, featuring an interactive poll visualization. MyPosition aims at facilitating the …

We present SmallWorlds, a visual interactive graph‐based interface that allows users to
specify, refine and build item‐preference profiles in a variety of domains. The interface …

This chapter investigates the concept of urban visualization, the visual representation of an
urban environment through its intrinsic or related data, where its display is also situated …