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Area of Science:

  • Information Visualization
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Communication Studies

Background:

  • Narrative visualizations blend communicative and exploratory design to present data-driven stories.
  • Understanding how design choices influence user interpretation is crucial for effective data storytelling.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and demonstrate visualization rhetoric as an analytical framework.
  • To understand how design techniques in narrative visualizations affect end-user interpretation.
  • To provide tools for analyzing the rhetorical nature of narrative information visualizations.

Main Methods:

  • Drawing parallels between narrative visualization interpretation and framing studies in political messaging, decision-making, and literary studies.
  • Applying concepts from critical theory, semiotics, journalism, and political theory.
  • Systematic analysis of recent narrative visualizations to identify rhetorical techniques.

Main Results:

  • Visualization rhetoric framework effectively analyzes how design tactics (data, visual representation, annotations, interactivity) prioritize interpretations.
  • Identified classes of rhetorical techniques and characterized their contribution to visualization.
  • Demonstrated how design choices denote and connote phenomena based on unstated conventions.

Conclusions:

  • Designers and researchers can leverage visualization rhetoric to create more engaging and layered narrative visualizations.
  • The framework aids in understanding how specific design choices lead to prioritized interpretations.
  • Identified areas for future research to deepen the understanding of visualization interpretation.