Data-Driven Storytelling (AK Peters Visualization Series)

This book presents an accessible introduction to data-driven storytelling. Resulting from unique discussions between data visualization researchers and data journalists, it offers an integrated definition of the topic, presents vivid examples and patterns for data storytelling, and calls out key challenges and new opportunities for researchers and practitioners.

Dr. Nathalie Henry Riche is a researcher at Microsoft Research since December 2008. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Paris XI and INRIA, France, as well as from the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on human-computer interaction and information visualization.

Dr. Christophe Hurter is a professor at the Interactive Data Visualization group ( part of the DEVI team) of the French Civil Aviation University (ENAC) in Toulouse, France.

Dr. Nicholas Diakopoulos is an Assistant Professor at the Northwestern University School of Communication where he directs the Computational Journalism Lab

Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization, the NSERC/AITF/SMART Technologies Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies and leads the Innovations in Visualization (InnoVis) research group.