Compiling Visualizations

The sequence—in other words, the order of visualizations that are presented to an audience—can help improve the effectiveness of data storytelling. Let's first take a look at a brief example of how order can be achieved by compiling data visualizations.

Ordering visualizations

A simple yet popular ordering methodology that data storytellers and visualizers often use is building up a plot by keeping certain elements of the plot consistent and adding to it. Animations are sometimes also used for this purpose.

Consider a sample line plot below. Here, we have defined the x-axis as the month, and the y-axis as a satisfaction score.