Storytelling with Data: Let’s Practice! Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

✍ Scribed by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Storytelling With Data Lets Practice
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
How This Book Is Organized & What To Expect
How To Use This Book in Conjunction With the Original
Do You Want To Learn Or Teach?
a Quick Note on Tools
Where To Get the Data
Let's Get Started
1 Understand the Context
1.1 Get To Know your Audience
Solution
1.2 Narrow your Audience
Solution
1.3 Complete the Big Idea Worksheet
Solution
1.4 Refine & Reframe
Solution
1.5 Complete Another Big Idea Worksheet
Solution
1.6 Critique the Big Idea
Solution
1.7 Storyboard!
Solution
1.8 Storyboard (Again!)
Solution
1.9 Get To Know your Audience
1.10 Narrow your Audience
1.11 Let's Reframe
1.12 What's the Big Idea?
1.13 What's the Big Idea (This Time)?
1.14 How Could We Arrange This?
1.15 Storyboard!
1.16 Storyboard (Again!)
1.17 Get To Know your Audience
1.18 Narrow your Audience
1.19 Identify the Action
1.20 Complete the Big Idea Worksheet
1.21 Solicit Feedback on your Big Idea
1.22 Create the Big Idea As a Team
1.23 Get the Ideas Out Of your Head!
1.24 Organize your Ideas in a Storyboard
1.25 Solicit Feedback on your Storyboard
1.26 Let's Discuss
2 Choose An Effective Visual
2.1 Improve This Table
Solution
2.2 Visualize!
Solution
2.3 Let's Draw
Solution
2.4 Practice in your Tool
Solution
2.5 How Would You Show This Data?
Solution
2.6 Let's Visualize the Weather
Solution
2.7 Critique!
Solution
2.8 What's Wrong With This Graph?
Solution
2.9 Let's Draw
2.10 Practice in your Tool
2.11 Improve This Visual
2.12 Which Graph Would You Choose?
2.13 What's Wrong With This Graph?
2.14 Visualize & Iterate
2.15 Learn From Examples
2.16 Participate in #Swdchallenge
2.17 Draw It!
2.18 Iterate in your Tool
2.19 Consider These Questions
2.20 Say It Out Loud
2.21 Solicit Feedback
2.22 Build a Data Viz Library
2.23 Explore Additional Resources
2.24 Let's Discuss
3 Identify & Eliminate Clutter
3.1 Which Gestalt Principles are in Play?
Solution
3.2 How Can We Tie Words To the Graph?
Solution
3.3 Harness Alignment & White Space
Solution
3.4 Declutter!
Solution
3.5 Which Gestalt Principles are in Play?
3.6 Find An Effective Visual
3.7 Alignment & White Space
3.8 Declutter!
3.9 Declutter (Again!)
3.10 Declutter (Some More!)
3.11 Start With a Blank Piece Of Paper
3.12 Do You Need That?
3.13 Let's Discuss
4 Focus Attention
4.1 Where are your Eyes Drawn?
Solution
4.2 Focus On...
Solution
4.3 Direct Attention Many Ways
Solution
4.4 Visualize All the Data
Solution
4.5 Where are your Eyes Drawn?
4.6 Focus within Tabular Data
4.7 Direct Attention Many Ways
4.8 How Can We Focus Attention Here?
4.9 Where are your Eyes Drawn?
4.10 Practice Differentiating in your Tool
4.11 Figure Out Where To Focus
4.12 Let's Discuss
5 Think Like a Designer
5.1 Use Words Wisely
Solution
5.2 Do It Better!
Solution
5.3 Pay Attention To Detail & Design Intuitively
Solution
5.4 Design in Style
Solution
5.5 Examine & Emulate
5.6 Make Minor Changes For Major Impact
5.7 How Could We Improve This?
5.8 Brand This!
5.9 Make Data Accessible With Words
5.10 Create Visual Hierarchy
5.11 Pay Attention To Detail!
5.12 Design More Accessibly
5.13 Garner Acceptance For your Designs
5.14 Let's Discuss
6 Tell a Story
6.1 Use Takeaway Titles
Solution
6.2 Put It Into Words
Solution
6.3 Identify the Tension
Solution
6.4 Utilize the Components Of Story
Solution
6.5 Arrange Along the Narrative Arc
Solution
6.6 Differentiate Between Live & Standalone Stories
Solution
6.7 Transition From Dashboard To Story
Solution
6.8 Identify the Tension
6.9 Move From Linear Path To Narrative Arc
6.10 Build a Narrative Arc
6.11 Evolve From Report To Story
6.12 Form a Pithy, Repeatable Phrase
6.13 What's the Story?
6.14 Employ the Narrative Arc
6.15 Let's Discuss
7 Practice More With Cole
7.1 New Advertiser Revenue
Solution
7.2 Sales Channel Update
Solution
7.3 Model Performance
Solution
7.4 Back-To-School Shopping
Solution
7.5 Diabetes Rates
Solution
7.6 Net Promoter Score
Solution
8 Practice More on your Own
8.1 Diversity Hiring
8.2 Sales By Region
8.3 Revenue Forecast
8.4 Adverse Events
8.5 Reasons For Leaving
8.6 Accounts Over Time
8.7 Errors & Complaints
8.8 Taste Test Data
8.9 Encounters By Type
8.10 Store Traffic
9 Practice More At Work
9.1 Create your Plan Of Attack
9.2 Set Good Goals
9.3 Give & Receive Effective Feedback
9.4 Cultivate a Feedback Culture
9.5 Refer To the Swd Process
9.6 Make Use Of An Assessment Rubric
9.7 Facilitate a Big Idea Practice Session
9.8 Conduct An Swd Working Session
9.9 Set Yourself Up For Successful Data Stories
9.10 Let's Discuss
10 Closing Words
Index
Eula
Copyright
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you?
Chapter 2: Renegade perception
Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting
Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe
Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’
Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit
Chapter 7: War on your mind
Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity
Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it?
Chapter 10: Human 2.0
Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult?
Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko
Postscript
Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation
Bibliography
Index