Data visualizations for the production of innovative narrative formats

自本世纪初以来，新闻媒体正在经历一场严重的衰退，导致该行业的深度重组。报纸行业的发行量和基于广告的收入明显下降。在加拿大，在过去的十年里，大约85%的日报破产了。然而，与传统报纸行业不同的是，在线数字新闻内容的受众越来越多。就像在任何竞争激烈的行业一样，创新成为每个媒体保持自己并生存下来的重要杠杆之一。在各大新闻媒体目前正在调查的新实践中，交互式数据可视化和一般的数据新闻都位居榜首。通过这一伙伴关系和项目，我们的目标是在开发计算机辅助制作基于数据可视化的故事的创新方法和技术方面解决三个方向。我们将在过去5年我们在数据可视化设计技术方面积累的合作伙伴关系的专业知识的基础上，探索和深化三个方面，以更好地支持和促进Le DEVAL新闻编辑部的数据记者的工作。首先，我们将开发在自动报告的背景下处理和维持实时数据的新方法。其次，我们将研究可视化设计的自动分解模型，用于以用户为中心的渐进式低认知负荷传递。最后，我们将探索新的互动形式和游戏化方法，以提高读者对信息的参与度、满意度和记忆力。Le Dededeal将把项目的产出一路整合到他们的生产流水线中。因此，它将向加拿大新闻读者公开展示和受益。乐德沃还定期参加国内和国际新闻比赛，这也将是在加拿大国内外新闻媒体行业区别、宣传和传播该项目成果的机会。在总部基地计划方面，该项目将支持聘用和培训5名研究生、6名本科生和1名研究助理，所有这些人都与Le dedeva的团队密切合作。

News media is going through a severe recession since the beginning of the 2000s, leading to a deep reorganization of the industry. The newspapers sector has seen its circulation and advertising based revenues specifically drop. In Canada, in the past ten years, around 85% of the daily newspapers bankrupted. However, unlike the traditional newspaper sector, online digital news contents see an increasing audience. As in any competitive industry, innovation becomes one of the important levers for each media to hold its own and survive. Among the new practices presently being investigated by the major news media, interactive data visualization, and data journalism in general, are on the top list. Our objective through this partnership and project is to address three directions in the development of innovative approaches and technologies for computer-aided production of data visualization based stories. We will build on the expertise our partnership already accumulated in the last 5 years in data visualization designing technologies, to explore and deepen three aspects that will better support and foster the work of data journalists in Le Devoir's newsroom. First, we will develop novel approaches for the handling and sustaining of live data in the context of automatic reporting. Second, we will investigate models for the automatic decomposition of a visualization design, for a progressive user-centred low-cognitive load transmission. Finally, we will explore new interactive formats and gamification approaches to increase readers engagement, satisfaction and memory retention of information. Le Devoir will integrate the outputs of the project into their production pipeline all along the way. It will therefore publicly showcase and benefit to Canadian news readers. Le Devoir also regularly participates in national and international journalism competitions, which will be also an opportunity to distinguish, promote and spread the project's results inside and outside Canada in the news media industry. In terms of HQP, the project will support the hiring and training of 5 graduate students, 6 undergraduate students, and one research assistant, all of them in tight collaboration with Le Devoir's team.