Storytelling using scientific data
Data is at the heart of the scientific discipline. Turning quantitative information into visual storytelling is done everyday by newspapers. We can do the same for our scientific presentations. Here is an example. Last week I was reading in the New York Times the story about GE and how they avoid paying taxes. Shocking, I know, but politics aside, the interesting fact about the story was the complementary article using visualization of data, also known as infographics. It is visual storytelling at its best: A script, words, and pictures (or in this case graphs). See below a screenshot. Now, this is engaging and compiling because of the visual evidence of the graphs and overall Gestalt . Each of these panels makes for great a slide. Sure the panel in the middle-right would need some adjustments because of the quantity of the text, but that is a minor detail. I'm sure you know where I'm going. These infographics complement the main text-based article, just as slides com