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FI G U R E 2-14
The True Size of Africa
(2010) by Kai Krause,
http://datal.ws/12t
There's an easy takeaway from each of these figures because you're familiar
with the data and the message is clear, but more often, the data is unfamiliar
and the patterns are only obvious after someone points them out to you.
That's when storytelling and data narratives come into the picture.
STORYTELLING
As a medium, visualization has developed into a great way to tell stories. News
organizations are learning to do this well in a budding field known as data jour-
nalism. (This is perhaps where Tufte's chartjunk and data-ink ratio suggestions
are most applicable.) Actually though, it's just good analysis and reporting.
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