Storytelling with Data 🐉

What is a story?

• It has beginning, middle and end (Aristotle)
• It has protagonist(s) and transformation(s)
• It is what culture(s) is made of
• It has audience(s)

1. Hans Rosling (RIP)

Enjoy him destroy ☠ DR2 Deadline reporter

He was a phenomenal public figure, and sadly passed away in early 2017.

Two tribute/obituary podcasts worth listening to

• Hans Rosling - the Extraordinary Life of a Statistical Guru in BBC's More or Less
• A Tribute to Hans Rosling in Data Stories

Telling stories around data

2. Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

Knaflic's website storytelling with data has resources.

What did Cole teach us?

• Setup (turning point)
• Conflict (character arc)
• Resolution (climax)

Here are three different perspectives

• Around data
• In data
• With data

3. Exercise!

Build a story around your project.

Bring in your data, and tell about complexity

Tell it to other group, then rotate groups

Try to pinpoint complexity and to simplify.

Ask yourselves:

• What have we done so far?
• What is the complex thing in this case?
• What question is the visualization going to answer?
• Why is this question worth asking?

Finish the NavCom 2017 story!