Recently, we facilitated a bespoke workshop on filming interviews, specifiically focused on social videos using a smartphone. Mike Sunderland joined the team to provide a mini-masterclass on the subject as well as provide a curated list of top tips to consider when making a video. Below you can download a PDF version of the pocket Read more about Top 9 Tips: Filming with a Smartphone[…]

As a part of the ESRC 2018 Festival of Social Science, we facilitated a workshop on Data Comics. The workshop, built from previous masterclasses and interactive programmes, explored the elements of comics, principles of data visualisation, and, of course, definitions and principles of data comics (Bach et al. 2017). Below you can download a PDF Read more about Data Comics: Guide for Creating Your Own![…]

This resource is a quick reference on the principles of data visualisations to think about how design choices influence how works are interpreted by end users.   The numerical and factual information are not the only elements in data visualisations that are being interpreted by end users. For example, when used ambiguously symbols can confuse how Read more about Bookmark_Principles of Data Visualisation[…]

The comics medium is a possible tool and approach to creating more affective communications.   Looking to shift your communications and wanting to try something new? The comics medium is approachable, accessible and relatable and can communicate serious topics of health, wellbeing and illness. These works, categorised as Graphic Medicine, both create emotive narratives and deliver Read more about Bookmark_Shifting to Graphic Medicine: Health Narratives and the Comics Medium[…]

In this presentation we argue that Graphic Social Science can make an important contribution to data storytelling. The emergence of Graphic Medicine, and now Graphic Social Sciences, seeks to make connections with audiences, in part, through their focus on emotion, empathy, point of view, and ability to capture multiple perspectives. As such, graphic narratives are Read more about Presentation_Giving Graphic Narrative to Numbers[…]