What storytelling can do for information visualization

By N. Gershon, Ward Page. Communications of the ACM, 2001

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Storytelling as an Instructional Method: Definitions and Research Questions. (2009, background): “Many publications (Gershon & Page, 2001; Harries, 2003; Hill, Gordon & Kim, 2004; Merrill, 2002; Preczewski, Hughes-Caplow & Donaldson, 1996) even off er prescriptive guidelines to those who teach using storytelling.”
Storytelling: The Next Step for Visualization (2013, background): “3 But while the article makes interesting points about the power of storytelling, it did not describe actual visualization, perhaps because it was primarily based on map views without numerical data.”
Exploration and Explanation in Computational Notebooks (2018, positive): “Ger-shon and Page highlighted the power of narrative to engage and convey information and suggested that information visualization employ well-established narrative techniques such as continuity editing, filling gaps, and redundancy [9].”
Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data (2010, background): “2 RELATED WORK Storytelling and visual expression are integral parts of human culture; storytelling has even been referred to as “the world’s second-oldest profession” [12].”