Description

One of the first books on data that host Kate Strachnyi read was Storytelling with Data. The author, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, is the guest in this episode. Cole has always described what she does as telling stories with data. So she founded a company called Storytelling with Data. Listen in to learn more about Cole’s mission to communicate effectively with data, make graphs that make sense, and weave those into compelling stories.

You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in...

• The story behind Storytelling with Data [02:45]
• Why is data storytelling important? [10:51]
• Turning data into stories [15:55]
• Graph designing tools [22:08]
• Storytelling with Data community [28:18]
• Data storytelling and your career [37:13]
• Focusing on storytelling [45:37]
• Dynamic storytelling dashboards [51:31]

Resources & People Mentioned

• Storytelling with Data Website
• Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide
• Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice!
• An Illustrated Tour of the Pie Chart Study Results
• Adam Ribaudo - VP, Data Activation - Velir | LinkedIn
• How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information: Cairo, Alberto

Connect with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

• On LinkedIn
• On Twitter

Connect with DATAcated

• http://www.datacated.com/
• DATAcated on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datacated1/
• Kate on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-strachnyi-data/
• DATAcated on Twitter: https://twitter.com/datacated_
• DATAcated on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/datacated

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