[New Feature] Stories

The reporting & sharing of data insight, which is the last mile of any data analysis process, should also be data-driven. But, state-of-the-art data reporting of modern BI & Analytics tools are all made with text and static chart images in pdf/png/ppt formats…just like the old days.

For data to exert the right influence it deserves in drawing the evidence-based conclusions, not only the chart representing aggregated data(sum, avg, count), but the raw-level evidence supporting an argument should also be presented to the decision-makers. Because as you increase the level of abstraction in your data, such as from raw data to aggregated data, data might become easier to understand, but more prone to mislead your decision.

And, to enable the users to author a genuine data report, HEARTCOUNT has just released a new feature, Stories. with Stories, you can create a beautiful and interactive html report.

Download a sample Stories or Create your own Stories

*n.b. Stories created in HEARTCOUNT Play, which is a free and limited version of our service, will be lost when you close your browsers unless you export it; HEARTCOUNT users are able to store the Stories on the server-side.

How to create your own data Stories:

A. create a new story by clicking a play icon at the top of the SmartPlot (or play) page

B. write the story title and click “+” button to add your first frame

C. edit text and visualization for the frame

• Story is basically composed of one and more frames
• Each frame is composed of text(title and body text) and visualization

C-1. text edit mode

• When you’re in text edit mode, you can add/edit the title and story(narrative explanation) of the frame.
• To use rich text editor, select the text(by holding down shift key or using mouse) you want to add some style to.
• To switch to visualization edit mode, click anywhere outside of the grey text editor box.
• Don’t forget save changes (“edited” wording appears next to the title when there is unsaved changes)

C-2. visualization edit mode

• Once you have the right visualization that matches with the story, click the blue camera icon at the bottom to attach the given visualization to the frame.
• When you’re in visualization edit mode, you can switch to text edit mode by clicking ˅ next to the title at the top of the screen.

D. continue add new frames by clicking + icon at the bottom.

• once your Story is finished, click “x” icon at the top.
• do not forget save any unsaved changes before finishing.

E. play, share, and eidt the Story

• play the interactive data Story by click a play(>) icon
• add the current visualization to the Story by clicking a camera icon
• export and share the story by clicking a curved arrow icon
• edit the story by clicking a pencil icon