Data Storytelling

This is Blog 3 of my Practical Tips on Data Storytelling blog series. In the First Blog we focused on the point you are trying to make via data storytelling. In the Second Blog we focused on the importance of building credibility. In this blog I will focus on how we can move from numbers/data to meaning. So, lets get started, Numbers…

This is blog 2 of my practical tips on data storytelling blog series. In the first blog we focused on the point you are trying to make via data storytelling. In this blog I give a few tips on building credibility with the audience. So, lets get started, Data Storytelling Tip #2 Who am I speaking to and why should they listen …

Our education system works against our ability to data story tell. We teach two main subjects in school, language and maths. With language, we learn to tell stories. With maths, we learn to use numbers. But we don’t ever learn how to tell a story with numbers. That is the reason why data storytelling can be a difficult for many of us.…

This blog is the fifth blog of my Blog Series on Data Storytelling from Data Dealers. Who are data dealers? People whose job, day-in and day-out is to work with data. I have coined a term for these people, Data Dealers, because no one really knows better than them what it is like to deal with overwhelming data and how best to…

This blog is the fourth blog of my Blog Series on Data Storytelling from Data Dealers. Who are data dealers? People whose job day in and out is to work with data. I have coined a term for these people, Data Dealers because no one really knows better then them what it is to deal with overwhelming data and how best to…

This blog is the third blog of my Blog series on Data Storytelling from Data Dealers. Who are data dealers? People whose job day in and out is to work with data. I have coined a term for these people, Data Dealers because no one really knows better then them what it is to deal with overwhelming data and how best to…

This is part 2 of of my Data Storytelling with Data Dealers blog series.  In this series I cover real stories from 5 professionals from 5 different countries who work with data as a part of their role. Since they deal with data every day,I have coined a term for them Data Dealers. In my previous blog I shared a real story…

This blog is the first of my blog series on Data Storytelling from Data Dealers. Who are Data Dealers? People whose job day in and out is to work with data. I have coined a term for these people, Data Dealers because no one really knows better then them what it is to deal with overwhelming data and how best to make…

This blog is written as a response to a question I received in twitter. Thank you Stefan Norrvall for asking the question. The reason why I decided to blog instead of respond with a tweet was – I am not sure if I can get my point across in 140 characters. So, here is a bit of context for anyone else who…

This blog is for you if you have the job of taking numbers and then explaining why these numbers matter. I have blogged on a similar concept using statistics before. You can find that blog here. I have increasingly been doing a lot more data related storytelling projects. Here one thing which is basic but seems to be missing when we…