Story Schema

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Unlike User Schema where the schema categorizes each individual, Story Schema goes in order, and the information from the previous order will drive the next order.

1: Qualitative vs Quantitative

• Is the information conceptual (qualitative) or data driven (quantitative)?

It is uncertain whether this step is necessary because the presumption is all of our data is quantitative and not qualitative.

2: Main Idea

• What is the main idea ?
• What is the beginning, middle, and end?
• What is the setting, the main character, the imbalance, the balance, and the solution?

3: Emphasis

• What do you want to emphasize?

4: Visualize

• What would you like to visualize?

There are five (or more) different ways to visualize:

• comparison
• relationship
• network
• distribution
• composition

5: Visual Display

• What is the visual display?

Comparison

• simple text: for one or two data points
• table: for verbal communication (unlike graph)
• heat map: for visualizing relative magnitude of numbers, please use one shade of color and display its respective legend
• graph: for visual communication (unlike table)
  • line graph: for continuous data
  • slope graph: for comparing two time periods or points of interest
• vertical/horizontal bar chart (horizontal is better)
• circular area chart: for cyclical data

Relationship

• scatterplot: for relationship between two things
• scatterplot bubble size
• CPR: correlation between two attributes
• snowflake: correlation between multiple attributes

Network

• flow chart
• map of geography
• hierarchies
• 2x2
• networks

Distribution

• histogram
  • vertical bar histogram
  • line histogram
• scatterplot: for two or more variables
• alluvials
• sankey

Composition

• waterfall: for showing a starting and ending point or for pulling apart stacked bar chart
• stacked bar chart
  • vertical stacked bar chart: for comparing subcomponents, it is important when comparing a subcomponent that this compared subcomponent is reordered to be the bottom.
  • horizontal stacked bar chart: for comparing negative to positive subcomponents
• square area: for comparing numbers of vastly different magnitudes