telling stories with data slideshare
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Cathie Howe
Manager, Macquarie ICT Innovations Centre
NSW Department of Education and Macquarie University
Cathie Howe, Macquarie ICT Innovations Centre
The Importance of Story
The shortest distance between truth and ahuman being is story
Anthony deMello, One Minute Wisdom
Stories connect us all, always has, always willJeff Gomez, Transmedia Storytelling Master Class
Stories spark emotionPeople use stories to make sense of things
People learn from storiesThe Power of Storytelling, http://www.thestorytellers.com/the-power-of-storytelling
Storytelling and visual expression are integral parts of human culture …
Segel, E & Heer, J. (2010) Narrative Visualisation: Telling Stories with Data
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The Importance of Data
“The capacity to generate and store data has reached dizzying proportions. What lies within the data represents the chance for this generation to solve its most pressing problems – from disease to climate change to health care and customer understanding.”
Gurjeet Singh (2015) Understanding the ‘shape’ of Data to Shape our World
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Story + Data
“melding the skills of computer science, statistics, artistic design and storytelling”
Show me: new ways of visualising data sourced from The Economist http://www.economist.com/node/15557455
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Telling Stories with Data
• Narrative is the way we simplify and make sense of a complexworld
• It supplies context, insight, interpretation—all the things that make data meaningful.
• You’re attempting to persuade, inspire trust, and lead change.
• Stories that incorporate data and analytics are more convincingthan those based on anecdotes or personal experience.
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The Power of Story + Data:World Vision Example
The Future of Storytelling
Stories are meaningful when they are memorable, impactful and personal.
Sourced from You Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL-PAzrpqUQ
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Data and the NSW Syllabuses
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Data and the NSW Syllabuses
Science
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Data and the NSW Syllabuses
History
Example Key inquiry questions:What stories do other people tell about the past?How can stories of the past be told and shared?How do we describe the sequence of time?
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”- Rudyard Kipling
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An Example: First Fleet Data Set on Scootle
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Convert First Fleet Data Set to Google Sheets
Download spreadsheet, then upload and covert to a Google Doc.
Share with Students
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Pivot Tables
• Pivot tables can be an example of two-way tables. It’s a tool that can extract significance from a large data set.
• Data summarisation tool found in data visualization programs such as spreadsheets
• Allows you to interpret data in different ways
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Pivot Tables and the First Fleet Data Set
Working with two variables in this example – gender and ship
Examine the relationships between the two variables
Can you find a story in this data?
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Visual Data Analysis – telling the story of data (Infographic)
“Visual data analysis blends highly advanced computational methods with sophisticated graphicsengines to tap the extraordinary ability of humans to see patterns and structure in even the most complex visual presentations.”
2015 Interim Horizon Report K-12
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Scaffold for Telling Data Stories
1. Define Audience
2. Create Hypotheses
3. Sketch
4. Get Data
5. Explore Data
6. Tell the Story
http://online-behavior.com/analytics/stories
Daniel Waisberg is an Analytics Advocate at Google and the Founder of Online Behavior
“Data analysis isn’t about graphics and visualizations; it’s about telling a story”
“Analysis doesn't have to be long and complex.”
https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/articles/tell-meaningful-stories-with-data.html
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Practices for telling great stories with data
Whitepaper, “5 best practices for telling great stories with data. Tableau Softwarehttps://www.tableau.com/sites/default/files/whitepapers/whitepaper_best-practices_telling_great_stories.pdf
Sourced from Flickr by US Department of Agriculture: The cost of raising a child
Think of Your Analysis as a Story1. Find the story first – explore the data2. Determine what you want people to do
as a result3. Write out the “story board” for your
audience
Be authentic – your story will flow• Make it personal, make it emotional• Start with a metaphor or anecdote• Develop with data - authenticity is
rooted in facts and facts are rooted in data
• Supplement hard data with qualitative data
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Practices for telling great stories with data
Be Visual – think of yourself as a film editor• Use pictures and graphs
• Design your graphs and charts for instant readability but allow for layers of meaning as the graph is studied
Make it easier for your audience and you• Telling a story should be simple and direct. Recall and action
will be that much stronger
• Stick to 2-3 key issues and how they relate to your audience
• No hoop jumping
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Stories you can tell with Data
Time
• A reporting story about the past
• An explanatory story about the present
• A prediction story about the future
Focus
• What story
• Why story
• How to address the issue story
Frequency of lightning
http://dupress.com/articles/data-driven-storytelling/
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Locating Data
Collect your own data.
Access the vast number of public data sets.
• Sea surface information data sets• Weather Observations data sets• Terrestrial protected areas under Australian Government jurisdiction• Frog Atlas for South Australia• The First Fleet• Climate data
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Sourcing Data Sets
Access the vast number of public data sets. Here just a few examples:
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What is an Infographic?
Infographics are graphicvisual representations of information or data that can present complex information quickly and clearly.
Data analysis isn‘t about graphics and visualizations; it‘s about telling a story.
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Student Designed Infographic using Piktochart
Sourced from: http://catlintucker.com/2013/11/student-designed-infographics-process-products/
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Free tools for Creating Infographics & Charts
easely Piktochart
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Free tools for Creating Infographics & Charts
infogr.am VENNGAGE visually
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WFP: Country Donors and Recipients
http://cdn.wfp.org/data/globe/
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CYBERTHREAT REAL – TIME MAP
https://cybermap.kaspersky.com/
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Hans Rosling’s Yardstick of Wealth
Hans Rosling is famous for presenting public data about the world with the most elegant and innovative infographic technology, all to tell a gripping story of the world's past, present and future development.
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