Introducing Stories for Graphs
We are excited to announce a new feature, Stories on Graph Commons.
A network map, or a graph, is a powerful medium to visualize and analyze relations at scale. It doesn’t present a single story, but multiple possible narratives. At first glance, a giant hair-ball of a graph can be, for the non-expert, confusing, intimidating, or just illegible. Not everyone has the facility to read a network map and use algorithmic interfaces to filter and navigate. So we created the Stories feature, to allow you to tell simple narratives from complex data maps.
As of today, you can start creating interactive slideshows to tell dynamic stories from your graphs. You can narrate interesting patterns, actors, paths and clusters in your data, through a visual interface that mimics the movements of a camera across your graph. Beginning with the familiar narrative flow of a story, you can reach more people, and introduce them to the tools that will allow them to engage with your graphs. It looks great on mobile browsers too!
Explore the stories below and try the interactive tutorial to begin making your own stories.
NGO responses to the climate change policies in Europe
Who is opposing or supporting the EU climate change policies.
8-slide story by SIMPOL Project, Financial Systems Simulation & Policy Modelling at University of Zurich.
ATÖLYE’s multidisciplinary community curation
Sector-based curation that enhances creative production amongst our community. 9-slide story by ATÖLYE, Transdisciplinary Innovation Platform in Istanbul.
The power broker of the Erdogan family
Erdogan’s brother-in-law ties the family to the Azeri SOCAR conglomerate. 11-slide story by L’Espresso Magazine, Italy’s prominent weekly and Italian partner of ICIJ.
Major ISIS attacks in Turkey
This story tracks the major attacks committed by ISIS from among the 88 attacks by 9 different terror organizations since 2011. 5-slide story by 140journos, new media journalism from Turkey.
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