Interactivity as a storytelling tool in data visualisation

This post is adapted from a talk I gave at IIT Guwahati in September 2024. The framework I use here comes from a paper I really like — “Communicating with Interactive Articles” by Hohman, Conlen, Heer and Chau (Distill, 2020). If you’re interested in the theory behind interactive storytelling, I’d highly recommend reading it. I’ve taken their framework and filled it with examples — some from my…