4 things worth reading this week
19 September 2026 · Curated for research-led data visualisation & design practice
The effects of visualisation literacy and data storytelling dashboards on teachers’ cognitive load
Learning analytics (LA) dashboards are becoming increasingly available in various learning settings.
This gives you a clear structure for balancing author-driven guidance with reader-driven exploration. It could change how you choreograph data stories by showing exactly where guided walkthroughs help comprehension and where freeform exploration is necessary.
Leveraging Foundation Models for Crafting Narrative Visualization: A Survey
Narrative visualization transforms data into engaging stories, making complex information accessible to a broad audience.
This gives you a clear structure for balancing author-driven guidance with reader-driven exploration. It could change how you choreograph data stories by showing exactly where guided walkthroughs help comprehension and where freeform exploration is necessary.
Data Storytelling and Decision-Making in Seaport Operations: A New Approach Based on Business Intelligence
Seaports are experiencing several challenges due to the explosive growth of the maritime shipping business, which has led to the need for digitalized operations and more effective solutions.
This gives you a rigorous, repeatable method to integrate directly into your design discovery toolkit. You will find it particularly valuable when scoping ambiguous project briefs and structuring qualitative feedback into actionable design constraints.
VisEval: A Benchmark for Data Visualization in the Era of Large Language Models
Translating natural language to visualization (NL2VIS) has shown great promise for visual data analysis, but it remains a challenging task that requires multiple low-level implementations, such as natural language processing and visualization design.
This gives you a rigorous, repeatable method to integrate directly into your design discovery toolkit. You will find it particularly valuable when scoping ambiguous project briefs and structuring qualitative feedback into actionable design constraints.
“A visualisation does not merely communicate data; it shapes what people consider relevant, uncertain, and actionable.”