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Visual Storytelling with Snapshots Applied to Official Statistics

Authors:
Patrik Lundblad
Tobias Åström
Mikael Jern

Keywords: Visual Storytelling, Geovisual analytics, web-based learning, statistics visualization, statistics database

Abstract:
Abstract—The paper focuses on “visual storytelling” – exemplified through telling stories about official statistics development over time that could shape economic growth and well-being. Discoveries are made that draw the user into reflecting on how life is lived - and may be improved - from one region to another. In addition, the user can interactively participate in the web-based process, which is important to the education and dissemination of public statistics. A demonstrator World eXplorer with storytelling and an integrated snapshot mechanism is introduced, programmed in Adobe’s ActionScript and is based on the geovisual analytics paradigm. An interactive visual story mechanism assists the author to improve a reader’s visual knowledge through reflections on how life is lived by using a variety of demographics, such as healthcare, environment, and educational and economic indicators. Educators can develop interactive teaching material based on this storytelling mechanism and avoid boring statistics presentations. Integrated snapshots can be captured at any time during an explorative data analysis process and they become an important component of an analytical reasoning process. Students can access geovisual applications and explore statistical relations on their own guided by the stories prepared by the teachers. With the associated science of perception and cognition in relation to the use of multivariate spatio-temporal statistical data, this paper contributes to the growing interest in geovisual statistics analytics.

Pages: 150 to 155

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: May 27, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3972

ISBN: 978-1-61208-200-4

Location: Stuttgart, Germany

Dates: from May 27, 2012 to June 1, 2012