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Data Storytelling 1: Compelling Narratives

Sergio Villalobos

Today’s business professionals are swimming in an endless sea of data. This course provides a guide to translate good data into understandable, actionable insight using a narrative structure. Participants will walk through the process of crafting a compelling data narrative, starting with exploratory analysis and moving into explanatory analysis that is clear to your audience. Time-tested narrative structures will be drawn from to communicate complex information in a way that resonates with decision-makers and leads to action. Practical exercises using financial data will reinforce concepts for learners.

Skills / Knowledge

  • Learn to separate the data for analysis versus the data used to communicate that insight
  • Apply exploratory analysis to identify key data drivers in a data sample
  • Learn to create and ask questions for your audience to create presentations that stimulate action and response
  • Demonstrate the benefits of adding a persona to your data to create stories that resonate
  • Explore historical storytelling frameworks and how they help us make compelling data stories
  • Craft a compelling data storytelling “arc” that takes readers through carefully designed narrative stages
  • Employ techniques to deal with the impatient decision-maker
  • Understand how compelling stories can help to overcome resistance or entrenched “myths” and corporate cultural “blind spots”

Issued on

March 10, 2023

Expires on

Does not expire