Data visualizations and narratives are often integrated to convey data stories effectively.
Among various data storytelling formats, data videos have been garnering increasing …

Data storytelling is powerful for communicating data insights, but it requires diverse skills
and considerable effort from human creators. Recent research has widely explored the …

We propose emordle, a conceptual design that animates wordles (compact word clouds) to
deliver their emotional context to audiences. To inform the design, we first reviewed online …

Visual analytics supports data analysis tasks within complex domain problems. However,
due to the richness of data types, visual designs, and interaction designs, users need to …

Visual querying of location-based data assists users in expressing query requirements,
investigating query results and making inferences. However, directly accessing data records …

Creating data stories from raw data is challenging due to humans' limited attention spans
and the need for specialized skills. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) …

We present a comprehensive survey on the use of annotations in information visualizations,
highlighting their crucial role in improving audience understanding and engagement with …

Efforts to expand the authoring of visual stories beyond the 2D canvas have commonly
mapped flat imagery to 3D scenes or objects. This translation requires spatial reasoning, as …

Although story maps have gained popularity for storytelling related to spatial information,
existing story maps authoring tools often fall short in delivering diverse narrative forms and …

Methods for evaluating cognitively inspired geospatial interfaces have been important for
revealing and helping solve their cognitive and usability issues. We argue that this is now …