Supporting the generation of data narratives

Data narration has received increasing interest in several communities while lacking models and tools for handling, building and structuring data narratives. We present a simple prototype for supporting data narrative, based on a conceptual model defined in [4]. It guides a data narrator from scratch: fetch and explore data, abstract important messages based on an intentional goal, structure the contents of the data story, and render it in a visual manner. This prototype is implemented in Java as a web application using Spring, d3.js, JFree Chart and Apache PDFBox.