Storytelling in Visual Analytics Tools for Business Intelligence

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for creating a story from business intelligence visualizations, the instructions, when executed, control a computer system to be configured for:

• displaying a set of visualizations associated with a business intelligence system on a business intelligence dashboard, wherein the business intelligence dashboard is used to create a business intelligence report;
• receiving a set of annotations that are associated with one or more visualizations in the set of visualizations through the dashboard;
• storing the set of annotations with links to the one or more visualizations;
• and
• generating a narrative board for the story including at least a portion of the visualizations and the set of annotations, wherein the set of annotations on the narrative board are displayed visually in the narrative board with a visual relationship to respective visualizations based on respective links to the visualizations to form the story.

An apparatus configured to create a story from business intelligence visualizations, the apparatus comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions, that when executed, control the one or more computer processors to be configured for:
• displaying a set of visualizations associated with a business intelligence system on a business intelligence dashboard, wherein the business intelligence dashboard is used to create a business intelligence report;
• receiving a set of annotations that are associated with one or more visualizations in the set of visualizations through the dashboard;
• storing the set of annotations with links to the one or more visualizations;
• and
• generating a narrative board for the story including at least a portion of the visualizations and the set of annotations, wherein the set of annotations on the narrative board are displayed visually in the narrative board with a visual relationship to respective visualizations based on respective links to the visualizations to form the story.