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Towards Audience-Driven Real-Time Data Storytelling

Angelica Lo Duca
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This paper introduces the concept of Audience-Driven Real-Time Data Storytelling (ADRDS), a framework that utilizes participatory and social sensing to enable audiences to actively shape the presentation of data stories. At its core, ADRDS employs a pre-authored decision tree, where the presenter defines the data story through a branching three-act arc (setup, conflict, and resolution). Each node contains a question, branching rules, thresholds for coverage, consensus, and confidence intervals, as well as one or more potential calls to action (CTAs). Audience members connect to the ADRDS framework via a URL on their mobile devices and answer questions in real time. ADRDS evaluates responses against the decision tree in real-time, following strong branches when thresholds are satisfied or activating fallback paths when signals are inconclusive. ADRDS then selects the final action consistent with the traversed path and the audience's demonstrated readiness, subject to fairness safeguards. ADRDS transforms presentations of data stories into audience-shaped decision processes, where live data actively drives the narrative. This work paves the way towards a new form of data storytelling, where the final data story depends on the audience's background and interests.

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Angelica Lo Duca. 2026-10-29. Towards Audience-Driven Real-Time Data Storytelling. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39658

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