Session 3C: Annotations in Viz & D3

What is everybody interested in round table:

creating full conversation, tech documentation, user communicate, storytelling, user annotation, notes over time, annotations own dataset, learning viz, as a starting point for exploration

let's look at some examples:

• NYT example
• Many Eyes
• Comment Space from Heer's lab - explore data, take a snapshot & add a comment, many people do this
• storytellingwithdata.com

As visualization evolves over time - the diff. What's normal and what's different from normal. What are the highlights that are important because they are different.

Tamara (paraphrased): you don't want to get to the point where the users are doing search for you - annotation aids the search. Ex: if you're letting the user hunt & peck, you're asking them to search for insights vs surfacing them.

As the author of the viz, you should tell your story. But, that others can suggest their interpretation/their story.

Ex: in the kindle you can see the most popular highlighted sections in the book. Can change how you experience the book by seeing what others see as important.

With D3 - bind an annotation to a visual element or data point. Or bind to a state (but how do you define that). Or - this is the grid, and annotation shows up here.