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storytelling with data: #54 storytelling, folklore, and data with Joshua Smith

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Is There a Tradition in Bar Chart Races?

The bar chart race is a perfect example. I also think about people making their resumes as dashboards. When we see these traditions coming to life and this sort of artistic communication through people expressing themselves in a dashboard or interactive job resume, it feels really similar to what I read in that paper. We have these traditional elements like the bar chart, but then somebody had it a variant, they animated it and made the axis move and it got really exciting. And then next thing that variant kind of lost its function, the function was this novelty and excitement factor.

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