SmartStory 📈

SmartStory is a visual analysis tool for automated partitioning, layout, and captioning of charts into comic-style narratives. SmartStory is contributed by Debabrata Panigrahi, Vedant Raghuwansi and Ankit Samota 🎉

SmartStory takes an ensemble of user-created charts (a) and automatically generates a data comic (b-d). This is achieved through a back- end pipeline with operations to identify story pieces (b), organize & order story pieces (c), and generate & integrate explanations (d). The user can also interactively edit the captions and layout of the charts, and change the style or appearance of the data comic (e).

Generated Datacomics Examples 📄

With NLP generated captions

college data

gun data

luma data (used in the scenario)

With bullet-point-style captions

college data

gun data

Theme Examples

dark theme with comic-style charts	dark theme example 1	dark theme example 2
excel theme example 1	excel theme example 2	five thirty eight theme example
ggplot2 theme example	latimes theme example	quartz3 theme example 1
quartz3 theme example 2	vox theme example

System Setup and Running 🏗️

Prerequisite:

Node and Python

Install:

npm install

(Also install the required Python packages by following the README in the folder "rewrite-python-service")

Start server:

npm start

📌 Open the explorer with "http://localhost:8090/" 🚀