Special Section on CANS: Affective motion textures
Computers and Graphics
The four-level nested model revisited: blocks and guidelines
Proceedings of the 2012 BELIV Workshop: Beyond Time and Errors - Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization
Indexicality and visualization: exploring analogies with art, cinema and photography
Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition
Critical InfoVis: exploring the politics of visualization
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Spinning data: remixing live data like a music dj
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Contextifier: automatic generation of annotated stock visualizations
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Recommender narrative visualization
CASCON '13 Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research
Story visualization of novels with multi-theme keyword density analysis
Journal of Visualization
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Narrative visualizations combine conventions of communicative and exploratory information visualization to convey an intended story. We demonstrate visualization rhetoric as an analytical framework for understanding how design techniques that prioritize particular interpretations in visualizations that "tell a story" can significantly affect end-user interpretation. We draw a parallel between narrative visualization interpretation and evidence from framing studies in political messaging, decision-making, and literary studies. Devices for understanding the rhetorical nature of narrative information visualizations are presented, informed by the rigorous application of concepts from critical theory, semiotics, journalism, and political theory. We draw attention to how design tactics represent additions or omissions of information at various levels−the data, visual representation, textual annotations, and interactivity−and how visualizations denote and connote phenomena with reference to unstated viewing conventions and codes. Classes of rhetorical techniques identified via a systematic analysis of recent narrative visualizations are presented, and characterized according to their rhetorical contribution to the visualization. We describe how designers and researchers can benefit from the potentially positive aspects of visualization rhetoric in designing engaging, layered narrative visualizations and how our framework can shed light on how a visualization design prioritizes specific interpretations. We identify areas where future inquiry into visualization rhetoric can improve understanding of visualization interpretation.