From storymaps to notebooks

Do your computing one bit at a time

Tony Hirst / @psychemediaOpen Knowledge School of Data

People like stories

Stories progress one step at a time

Two sorts ofserialised narrative

Story maps and narrative charts1

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“Minard’s Map”

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[after Stefanie Posavec]

Notebook computing2

Literate programmingReproducible

research

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g“A literate programmer is an essayist who writes programs for humans to understand.”

Knuth, Donald E. "Literate programming." CSLI Lecture Notes, Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), 1992 1 (1992).

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h“[R]esearch papers with accompanying software tools that allow the reader to directly reproduce the results and employ the methods that are presented in the research paper.”

Gentleman, Robert and Temple Lang, Duncan, "Statistical Analyses and Reproducible Research" (May 2004). Bioconductor Project Working Papers. Working Paper 2.http://biostats.bepress.com/bioconductor/paper2

[Conversations with data]

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Construct your story one step at a tell

Read your story one step at a time

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