IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for Communication (VisComm 2023)

Annotation Strategies in Professional Visualizations

Md Dilshadur Rahman, Ghulam Quadri Jilani, Paul Rosen

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Five annotation strategies recurring across 72 professional news charts.

This site provides a strategy-indexed companion to Exploring Annotation Strategies in Professional Visualizations: Insights from Prominent US News Portals. It presents each of the five strategies (S1–S5) identified in the paper alongside the figures used to illustrate them, with per-figure annotation analysis.

Five Annotation Strategies

Five recurring strategies identified through qualitative analysis of static charts from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. Select a card to read the full strategy discussion and a representative example.

Professional Examples from News Portals

The nine figures discussed in the paper, each annotated with the strategies they exemplify. Use the filters below to explore by strategy, publication, or chart type. Select See Details to read the full per-figure annotation analysis.

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Reference

Rahman, D., Quadri, G. J., and Rosen, P. (2023). Exploring Annotation Strategies in Professional Visualizations: Insights from Prominent US News Portals. Open Science Framework Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/fd8zj 

@article{rahman2023annotationstrategies,
  title   = {Exploring Annotation Strategies in Professional Visualizations: Insights from Prominent US News Portals},
  author  = {Rahman, Dilshadur and Quadri, Ghulam Jilani and Rosen, Paul},
  year    = {2023},
  journal = {IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for Communication (VisComm)},
  doi     = {10.31219/osf.io/fd8zj},
  url     = {https://osf.io/fd8zj_v1}
}