Esri Chief Scientist Dr Dawn Wright, wrote about the spatial analysis that can be achieved and communicated through the use of Story Maps. Story maps have been useful for assessing student work, for teaching concepts, skills, and perspectives, and for students to use as presentation and communication tools, but Dr Wright reminds us that they can also be used to show quantitative analysis: http://blogs.esri.com/esri/esri-insider/2014/09/15/speaking-the-language-of-spatial-analysis-via-story-maps/
Examples highlighted include site suitability, soil moisture, forest restoration, flood risk, and more.