Data visualizations for the production of innovative narrative formats

自2000年代初以来，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。报纸部门的发行量和广告收入特别下降。在加拿大，在过去的十年里，大约85%的日报破产。然而，与传统的报纸行业不同，在线数字新闻内容的受众越来越多。与任何竞争激烈的行业一样，创新成为每个媒体保持自己和生存的重要杠杆之一。在主要新闻媒体目前正在研究的新实践中，交互式数据可视化和一般的数据新闻都在最重要的名单上。我们的目标是通过这种伙伴关系和项目，解决三个方向的创新方法和技术的发展，计算机辅助生产的数据可视化为基础的故事。我们将在过去5年中在数据可视化设计技术方面积累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 Devoir新闻编辑室的数据记者的工作。首先，我们将开发新的方法来处理和维护自动报告背景下的实时数据。其次，我们将研究模型的可视化设计的自动分解，一个渐进的以用户为中心的低认知负荷传输。最后，我们将探索新的互动形式和游戏化方法，以提高读者的参与度，满意度和信息的记忆力。Le Devoir将把该项目的产出整合到他们的生产管道中，一直沿着。因此，它将公开展示并有益于加拿大新闻读者。Le Devoir还定期参加国家和国际新闻比赛，这也将是在加拿大新闻媒体行业内外区分、宣传和传播该项目成果的机会。在HQP方面，该项目将支持招聘和培训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 Devoir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.