From the course: Data Visualization: Storytelling
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Relatability
- [Instructor] When telling data stories, you have to make the data relatable to your audience. There are a few ways to do that, but generally it comes down to making sure you make the numbers understandable, relatable, and that you communicate the impact of those numbers in whatever context is appropriate. So this is a great example. If the moon were only one pixel, a tediously accurate scale model of the solar system. As it says at the bottom, you scroll to explore, and we scroll horizontally. So what are we doing here? As I scroll, I see, okay, the sun and the scale, and I could see one pixel is over here. Okay, I don't know exactly what's going on yet but I'm just going to keep scrolling and, oh, okay. That was about 10 million kilometers just now. In other words, I'm scrolling through the solar system, I guess, from the sun. Pretty empty out here. (laughing) And so you can get a sense of what we're…
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