Duration
1 day
Overview
- Combine the data and follow the best practices to present your story
- Create calculated fields for KPIs to build a figure that will be used to measure progress in the data
- Assemble a dashboard
- Analyze concepts and techniques for compelling storytelling with data
- Describe the use of data visualizations to talk about data and the results of data analysis
- Identify Excel as a data visualization tool and understand its uses
- Explain what data driven stories are including reference to their importance and their attributes
- Explain principles and practices associated with effective presentations
Course Outline
Planning and Preproduction: Aligning your Audience, Stakeholders, and Data
- What is a Story?
- Introduction to Planning and Preproduction for Visualizations
- A Design Checklist of the Who, What, Why, and How
- Start with Your Stakeholders
- Finding the Story
- Prioritizing, Optimizing, and Designing the Data Story
- Case Study - "The Tale of 100 Entrepreneurs"
Key Metrics, Indicators, and Decision Triggers
- Introduction to Key Metrics, Indicators, and Decision Triggers
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Thresholds and Alerts6m
- Data Quality
Dashboard and Storytelling with Data in Excel
- Best Practices for Dashboard Design
- Dashboard Design Principles
- Hierarchies, Actions, Filters, and Parameters
- Important Considerations for Creating Dashboards
Tell the Story of Your Data
- Tell the Story of Your Data Introduction
- The Art of Storytelling (Past, Present, and Future)
- Storytelling and the Human Brain
- Bringing Data to Life: Emotions and Data Storytelling
- Emotion Modulators: Color, Language, and Other Design Elements
- Framing and Format
- Framing, Conventions, and Priming
- False Narratives and Data Storytelling
- Telling the Stories within the Story
- Story Considerations6m
- Preparation of the Story Points
- Setting Up the Story
- Creating Points in the Story
- Interactive Story
- Create a Data Story in a Static Presentation
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.