Once Upon A Time In Visualization: Understanding the Use of Textual Narratives for Causality

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02649v1
• Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2020 05:46:24 GMT
• Title: Once Upon A Time In Visualization: Understanding the Use of Textual Narratives for Causality
• Authors: Arjun Choudhry, Mandar Sharma, Pramod Chundury, Thomas Kapler, Derek W.S. Gray, Naren Ramakrishnan and Niklas Elmqvist
• Abstract summary: Causality visualization can help people understand temporal chains of events. But as the scale and complexity of these event sequences grows, even these visualizations can become overwhelming to use. We propose the use of textual narratives as a data-driven storytelling method to augment causality visualization.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Causality visualization can help people understand temporal chains of events, such as messages sent in a distributed system, cause and effect in a historical conflict, or the interplay between political actors over time. However, as the scale and complexity of these event sequences grows, even these visualizations can become overwhelming to use. In this paper, we propose the use of textual narratives as a data-driven storytelling method to augment causality visualization. We first propose a design space for how textual narratives can be used to describe causal data. We then present results from a crowdsourced user study where participants were asked to recover causality information from two causality visualizations--causal graphs and Hasse diagrams--with and without an associated textual narrative. Finally, we describe CAUSEWORKS, a causality visualization system for understanding how specific interventions influence a causal model. The system incorporates an automatic textual narrative mechanism based on our design space. We validate CAUSEWORKS through interviews with experts who used the system for understanding complex events.

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