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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Last month I conducted 3 workshops on Data Storytelling in Singapore, China and Malaysia. During the Workshops I got the Data Analysts to apply the learnings on data they had brought from work. I noticed a pattern in their struggle.
Let us try and dig deeper in to the issue using an example, Imagine you are a Data Analyst and you are…
Data Storytelling and a mistake we often make.
Less than 7 years ago, a Managing Director of a business retrieves data for the last 5 year’s sales revenue. He calls his team and shows them that in Year 1 and Year 2 they performed exceptionally well. In Year 3, the revenue dropped a little and in Year 4 and Year 5, it…
Data Storytelling is not Data Analytics or Data Visualisation. My intention with this 309 word blog is to differentiate between Data Visualisation and Data Storytelling and give you an example convincing enough that makes you say, ” Yes, Data Visualisation is not Data Storytelling.
A lot of my work involves Data Storytelling and naturally I look for all articles, books and papers…