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 are like key messages - distilled information with no context...

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 to me? A couple of months ago I had the privilege of coaching a data...

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. However, like any other discipline there is a practical and...

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 make sense of it. You can read the previous stories by clicking on the...

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 make sense of it. You can read the previous stories by clicking on the links...

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 make sense of it. In our first blog a Data Dealer shared a great story on how he...