I explore my journey of discovering Visual Storytelling and Data visualization. I look at how social media has provided building blocks to create new and exciting experience.

1. Hi!

2. the relationships
between data
visualization and
visual storytelling in
the age of social

3. The
Landscape

4. yesterday today tomorrow

5. 15,000
websites ending in .com in 1992

6. 90,000,000+
websites ending in .com today

7. a gift and a curse

9. The
Challenge

10. GE
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CAPT
The growth of the internet
encourages data visualization

11. today
tomorrow
traffic on the cyber highway

12. “we want it to go
viral” - Client X

13. you vs the
world

14. The
Opportunity

15. Twitter is not just a
journaling of
events; Twitter is
theatre.

16. The real-time stream of social
media lends itself to the
development of characters

19. The
Process

20. Growth has provided
building blocks for
creating new and exciting
experiences

21. cut from source

22. pre cut wood

23. Home Depot

24. <140 character tweet
(time of tweet)
tweet = creator of tweet
(name, twitter handle)
users that have retweeted
(name, twitter handle, time
of retweet)

25. User who submitted
photo and when
photo =
Multiple Sizes
(sometimes limited to
thumbnail)

26. url
#X of diggs
digg = who submitted the link, first
and subsequent
tags
# of comments

28. Social Media APIs
are like TOFU

31. my recipes

33. Posts
last 5 days
article: represented by one dot => size represents popularity
comments: represented by cycle around article => size represents amount
categories / topics: color coded

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42. publish content

46. The
Historical
Playbook

47. numbers have
always been a big
part of storytelling

50. the media, military,
finance and individual
expression have
always been on the
front lines of
information design

58. 126th Observation
Squadron, Wisconsin
“the Badger state”

63. using a map as an
interface

68. How We
Bring it to
Life

69. live feed for events,
installations etc