The PlotCaptions Dataset: Automating the Narration of Visual Analytics
I’ve always been interested in how we narrate visual analytics. The hardest task in dataviz is not analysis or visualization, but figuring out what to say about it. I used to believe that a well designed chart does not need a narration. That may be valid, but over the years I’ve realized that it is the narrative that turns something that is merely pretty and insightful into something that is viral.