Catalysts: Random Notes and Thoughts

 
Contextualizing Information
 
When we see bullet points on a slide than a certain part of the brain gets activated which turns words into meaning. Brocos area and the Wernickes area: and that’s it. Nothing else happens.
When we hear a story however all parts get activated….also those which are ususally activated when we experience the story.
If someone tells us about the decisions certain foods were, our sensory cortex lights up.
Brains can synchronize when people tell stories. Evolution has weired brains for storytelling…how to make use of it.
Long story short: A story, if broken down into the simplest form, is a connection of cause and effect. Exactly how we think. “Personal stories and gossip make up 65% of our conversations”.
 
Telling stories with data….Movie directior + Simones comment on Encoding.
Visual Data stories: Human Face of Big Data
 
 
 
Collecting visualisations with narrative components and than attempt to identify and categorize the design features that effectively  tell stories with data.
 
 
 

Primary source: Online Jorunalism, including visualisations produced by the New York Times, the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Washington post and Slate: Analysiere die Narratives und interaktiven Geräte, die in den Beispielen genutzt weren.  Die akkumulierten Daten ergeben wiederkehrende Muster, die zu einer Analyse führen.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mapping data and still telling stories
 
 
 
There are not many people who have written a lot about data visualization and storytelling.
 
 
 
While a story is usually linear, it becomes branched in digital, interactive stories.
 
 
 
Doing an intensive research which extracts patterns and applies them to a design example of mapped data.