Data Storytelling

22 May

Storytelling: Victim To A Template Or A Storyteller?

I am conducting a Data Storytelling Workshop for finance professionals who work at a MNC. Their slides are filled with information, so much information that it feels to me like a Slideument (Slide + Document). When asked, “Why do you have so much information on a slide that you are presenting?”, their response was, “It’s a template that I have to follow.”…

01 May

Data Storytelling: Story Before Suggestions

Sam and his team, having worked hard to find an insight from data that they have received from their ecommerce team, finally find a meaningful insight after weeks of slicing and dicing the data. Excited, they walk in to a presentation to share the insight. Their presentation is structured like this: – We are here to make the following suggestions for an…

18 Apr

Data Storytelling: 5 short, free tutorials…

Words have always been the most natural way to tell stories. However, the rising importance of data has created a new need for us, which is to tell a story with numbers. Something that doesn’t come naturally to us. We have always presented an analysis of numbers. Hence, we are great at analysing the data but not so great at being able…

05 Dec

Data Storytelling: Insights Inform But Don’t Inspire Part 2 of 2

This blog is part 2 of the Insights Inform But Don’t Inspire blog. If you have not read part 1 of the blog, then I suggest you read it before you read this one. You can read blog 1 here. These learnings are from Brent Dykes’s article in Forbes What can we learn from Semmelweis’ experience? Semmelweis’ data met three key criteria …

05 Dec

Data Storytelling: Insights Informs but don’t Inspire Part 1 of 2

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22 Nov

Data Storytelling: Why Do We Present Data Like A Maze?

As I am doing more and more work on Data Storytelling, I am coming across examples that are demonstrative of the fact that our ability to data storytell is still at its embryonic stages. There are simple things that we agree with in theory but fail to apply. Here are some slides I have worked with that demonstrate my point. Now, as…

16 Nov

Storytelling: Stories Hidden in The Data From Feedback Forms

I have written about my views on the obsession attached with collecting data on Feedback Forms for workshops, seminars and trainings in the past. But as I am reading and understanding more about Feedback I am developing some insights. The trend has been to centralise and standardise systems, collecting data on metrics on feedback for workshops, trainings, seminars etc. This can be…

23 Jul

Before I begin, a disclaimer. We have used a video produced by KPMG as an example to bring the point we want to make via this blog to life. We lack context, it was not made for an audience like us. We are not even sharing our views on making this video better but simply using the information in the video to…

27 Jun

Data Storytelling: What are the Data Points you are using?

Your Data Storytelling is very dependent on the Data Points you choose for the correct story to shape up. Brian Wansink Professor of Marketing and the Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab. Author of Slim By Design and Mindless Eating is famous for the popcorn study. This popcorn study is a great way to elaborate this point. Here is…

15 Jun

Data Storytelling: Your Internal Presentation Culture – is it a Doctor’s Clinic or Courtroom?

In my previous blog on Data Storytelling, I suggested that in the absence of an insight, a Data Analyst should be a Questionologist. In this blog, I want to share the vital role that an audience plays in generating what we all want from Data….Insights. Firstly, I would highly recommend that we take the time to reflect upon our respective Internal Presentations…