Data Visualization and Story Telling

Gib Bassett sends along a link to an article compiled by Erica Driver.  Data Visualization: Storytelling, Skills and Utility.  Just this topic came up in a recent client discussion.  Storytelling is a form of direction and persuasion.  Data visualization is a form of presentation.  Integrating them makes lots of sense.  Imagine a panels of a simple story.  Would data visualization be within the panels, or run parallel to a story  Or could they be effectively combined?  The article has brought up some additional thoughts.  More to follow.  More in this blog about storytelling.