Pitch interactive developed a powerful online narrative visualization documenting every drone strike carried out in Pakistan. Animation is first used to introduce the topic, disclosing progressively the layout elements of the display to pace the story. Finally, the visualization of the drone attacks over time and their casualty. It included clickable links where animation is used to transition from current display to the next.

Scrolling is also commonly used to activate a transition to a next step of the story e.g. in “How the Recession Reshaped the Economy, in 255 Charts” —New York Times.

The Guardian published a story aimed at convincing people to vaccination their children by illustrating alternative scenarios using an animation. This animation shows how disease spreads on hypo-thetical populations of children whether she is vaccinated (blue) or not (yellow). An infected person regularly shows up and enters in contact with a child: a red circle flies over and bumps into a child in one of the populations, and may or may not infect the child. A vulnerable child (yellow) will automatically turn red at the contact of the red circle, and the flu will spread to all surrounding vulnera-ble children. Different populations show the impact of vaccination rates, the argument being that immunizing a child does not only protect the child, “immunization is contributing to the control of the disease in the population”.when individuals enter in contact with an infected person.