From the course: Data Visualization: Storytelling
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Story components
From the course: Data Visualization: Storytelling
Story components
- [Narrator] For thousands of years, humans have communicated via stories and we know what stories look, feel, and sound like, which means stories have predictable attributes. So, if you want to tell stories, even data stories, you have to be able to define what that means. Lisa Cron sums up the definition of a story like this: a story is how what happens affects someone who is trying to achieve what turns out to be a difficult goal and how she or she changes as a result. So, to break that down a bit more into four key things. A story is how what happens, that's the plot, affects someone, the protagonist, who's trying to achieve what turns out to be a difficult goal, this is the story problem, the challenge the protagonist faces, and how he or she changes as a result. This is what the story's all about, the so what. So, a story has a beginning, middle, and an end and every story has a plot, protagonist, challenge, and…
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