From the course: Data Visualization: Storytelling
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Change over time
- [Instructor] As the aphorism says, there are only seven plots in literature. Even though there are endless ways to tell a story, there's a relatively limited set of broad narrative mechanisms. Stories serve the purpose of allowing us to understand and experience the world around us. And through that experience, we learn how to survive and thrive. Since the human experience is about putting one foot in front of the other in a linear way and experiencing all that we experience through the lens of time, it makes sense that stories are linear, time-dependent, and time-driven. So one of the most common mechanisms for data stories is about data changing over time. First this happened and then this and then that. So when you're looking at your data, it makes sense to find time-driven storylines and tell these linear time-driven stories to your audience. This is an excellent example of a purely time-driven story, a look at the…
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