Data Storytelling

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…

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…