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Introducing data sonification as a core principle to data storytelling

Rethinking design accessibility in the world of data visualizations. The anatomy of a data visualization and visualizing for accessibility.

Data journalism is an emerging field due to the amount of open data that journalists now can leverage to find new stories, extract insights and findings, and produce a powerful story with cutting edge technologies. As Meredith Levien, the current CEO at the New York Times, has said “We live in the golden age of marriage between digital affordances and quality journalism.” Today I am going to share one aspect of this field — data storytelling.

Table of Contents

1. Defining data storytelling. 
2. The anatomy of an accessible data visualization. 
3. Visualization for accessibility - data sonification with an example of representing the US population of young adults living below the poverty threshold. 

Defining data storytelling

In the datafied world there is a lot of interconnected terminologies and buzzwords in the same way like in the world of artificial intelligence. So, I thought it made sense to bring a little more clarity into it.