{"id":651469,"date":"2013-04-09T08:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=242056efae58cb294a8c5480f0ca6c40"},"modified":"2013-04-08T14:37:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T18:37:41","slug":"telling-stories-with-visual-data-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651469","title":{"rendered":"Telling Stories with Visual Data: A Glimpse into the Future of Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: We&#8217;ve asked contributors to the <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/special-collections\/insight\/visualizing-data\">Visualizing Data Insight Center<\/a> to show us some of their favorite examples of dataviz with short explanations of what makes those visualizations so effective. Today, Jer Thorp shares one of his favorites.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Below is a screen grab of a masterful interactive data visualization. This narrative-driven piece by <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchinteractive.com\/\">Pitch Interactive<\/a> manages the extra-tricky task of balancing heavy subject matter with a clear story and compelling visuals. It&#8217;s a glimpse into the future of data-driven storytelling. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the piece is that it wasn&#8217;t commissioned by a media organization. It was built by Pitch as a way to explore and understand this complex topic. Bravo.<\/p>\n<p>The full data visualization is <a href=\"http:\/\/drones.pitchinteractive.com\/\">here<\/a> &#8212; it&#8217;s worth watching, and scrolling over for a more in-depth view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/assets_c\/2013\/04\/drones-3653.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/assets_c\/2013\/04\/drones-3653.html','popup','width=741,height=539,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/assets_c\/2013\/04\/drones-thumb-580x421-3653.png\" width=\"580\" height=\"421\" alt=\"drones.png\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nView more data visualization examples and best practices in our <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/special-collections\/insight\/visualizing-data\">month-long series on Data Visualization<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"insight-center\">\n<div class=\"insight-center-head\" style=\"font-size:18px; line-height:1.1em;\">Visualizing Data<br \/><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">An HBR Insight Center<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"insight-center-img\">\n        <A HREF=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/special-collections\/insight\/visualizing-data\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/hbrg-main\/resources\/images\/special-collections\/insight\/visualizing-data\/357x215-0313-insightcenter-11.jpg\"><\/A>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"insight-center-list\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2013\/04\/how_p_and_g_presents_data.html\">How P&#038;G Presents Data to Decision-Makers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2013\/04\/visualization_as_process.html\">Visualization as Process, Not Output<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/2013\/04\/ten_years_of_news_corp_income.html\">Ten Years of News Corp. Income Data in Less Than a Minute<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2013\/03\/when_presenting_your_data_get.html\">When Presenting Your Data, Get to the Point Fast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.harvardbusiness.org\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?a=XB0BU1I1ZeI:d7wy9X5dKs0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.harvardbusiness.org\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?a=XB0BU1I1ZeI:d7wy9X5dKs0:bcOpcFrp8Mo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/harvardbusiness\/~4\/XB0BU1I1ZeI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: We&#8217;ve asked contributors to the Visualizing Data Insight Center to show us some of their favorite examples of dataviz with short explanations of what makes those visualizations so effective. Today, Jer Thorp shares one of his favorites. Below is a screen grab of a masterful interactive data visualization. This narrative-driven piece by Pitch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7951,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}