Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice!
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Influence action through data!
This is not a book. It is a one-of-a-kind immersive learning experience through which you can become—or teach others to be—a powerful data storyteller.
Let’s practice! helps you build confidence and credibility to create graphs and visualizations that make sense and weave them into action-inspiring stories. Expanding upon best seller storytelling with data’s foundational lessons, Let’s practice! delivers fresh content, a plethora of new examples, and over 100 hands-on exercises. Author and data storytelling maven Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic guides you along the path to hone core skills and become a well-practiced data communicator. Each chapter includes:
● Practice with Cole: exercises based on real-world examples first posed for you to consider and solve, followed by detailed step-by-step illustration and explanation
● Practice on your own: thought-provoking questions and even more exercises to be assigned or worked through individually, without prescribed solutions
● Practice at work: practical guidance and hands-on exercises for applying storytelling with data lessons on the job, including instruction on when and how to solicit useful feedback and refine for greater impact
The lessons and exercises found within this comprehensive guide will empower you to master—or develop in others—data storytelling skills and transition your work from acceptable to exceptional. By investing in these skills for ourselves and our teams, we can all tell inspiring and influential data stories!
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Influence action through data!
This is not a book. It is a one-of-a-kind immersive learning experience through which you can become—or teach others to be—a powerful data storyteller.
Let’s practice! helps you build confidence and credibility to create graphs and visualizations that make sense and weave them into action-inspiring stories. Expanding upon best seller storytelling with data’s foundational lessons, Let’s practice! delivers fresh content, a plethora of new examples, and over 100 hands-on exercises. Author and data storytelling maven Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic guides you along the path to hone core skills and become a well-practiced data communicator. Each chapter includes:
● Practice with Cole: exercises based on real-world examples first posed for you to consider and solve, followed by detailed step-by-step illustration and explanation
● Practice on your own: thought-provoking questions and even more exercises to be assigned or worked through individually, without prescribed solutions
● Practice at work: practical guidance and hands-on exercises for applying storytelling with data lessons on the job, including instruction on when and how to solicit useful feedback and refine for greater impact
The lessons and exercises found within this comprehensive guide will empower you to master—or develop in others—data storytelling skills and transition your work from acceptable to exceptional. By investing in these skills for ourselves and our teams, we can all tell inspiring and influential data stories!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
May 12, 2018
A great book to help you create better charts/graphs. (Note: I call them charts because I use Excel – graphs may be the correct term.)
The book explains many visualisation concepts and backs it up with step by step examples of improving charts.
The before and after charts speak for themselves.
The book also places emphasis on identifying the message you are seeking to convey to the reader of your chart and making sure you are using the best chart to get that message across.
With dashboards being the buzz at the moment learning how to best display your information is a good skill to have. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Mar 23, 2018
Excellent book. Lots of practical guidance on choosing charts for typical situations (and some not-so-typical). Good approach from the perspective of "telling the story" of the data. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Jan 9, 2017
Thanks to my great colleagues for this recommendation. Storytelling with Data is full of first-rate advice about how to make the data make a point by emphasizing everything that helps and getting rid of everything else. It follows its own advice, resulting in a very readable storyline. I came away with lots of ideas I can try with something I need to get done this week (and also came away way too many memories of things I could have done better).
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