‘Data-Driven Storytelling’: A Short Review
This must-read book on visual storytelling for practitioners and researchers is a good mix of theory and practical guidelines.
Researching how to leverage visual storytelling for medical imaging data analysis, I was looking for a road map to obtain a more structured and solid theoretical background of the field and to expand my knowledge about it. Then, I came across Data-Driven Storytelling and it was love at first sight.
This bible of data-driven storytelling covers everything you need to know about the topic, from storytelling techniques (including scrollytelling) and narrative design patterns to evaluation and ethics in storytelling, providing readers with explanations and examples of the concepts described as well as extensive reference material. All of this is expressed in an accurate, concise, and clear way.
The reader is gently introduced to this journey of discovering their storytelling potential and understanding of its techniques. You learn through illustration what a data-driven story is, how to build a narrative, and why we need data-driven storytelling. As soon as you dive into this book, you will be unavoidably intrigued and hooked into it.
