A podcast on data and how it affects our lives — with Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner

35 | Visual Storytelling w/ Alberto Cairo and Robert Kosara

April 16, 2014 01:18:23 58.0 MB Downloads: 0

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Hi all,

Hot topic today! We invited Alberto Cairo and Robert Kosara to discuss the role of storytelling in visualization.  What is storytelling? Is all visualization storytelling? Should we always strive for telling a story? How does storytelling match with exploratory visualization? Should we aim more for worlds and macroscopes than stories as Moritz advocated a while back at Visualized? We went on a somewhat lengthy discussion on these topics and I think we all ended up agreeing on a lot of things and developed a much more nuanced view of storytelling. As you can see from the picture we had lots of fun (thanks Robert for taking the screenshot). Fantastic chat!

Note: Alberto had a lot more to say after the episode so he decided to publish a follow up post that clarifies some of the things he said on the show. But — spoiler alert — listen to the episode first! 🙂

P.S. Big, big thanks to Fabricio Tavares for taking care of the audio editing of this episode!

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