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Data-Driven Storytelling

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Title:
Five Ways To Create Engaging Data-Driven Stories
Author:
Steve Rayson
Date:
September 19, 2016
Published by:
buzzsumo.com
Summary:
"There is a growing interest in data driven stories. A new breed of journalists are uncovering and telling data-driven stories facilitated by access to large datasets and easy to use data analysis tools. Content marketers and SEO teams are also drawn to data-driven stories by evidence that research and data based articles attract more links. In this article we explore the five core narratives for telling stories with data."
Keywords:
Data driven storytelling, data, league tables, buzzsumo.com


Title:
Data-Driven Storytelling And Dashboards: How Narrative Science's NLG Reaches A New Level
Author:
Dan Woods
Date:
August 31, 2016
Published by:
forbes.com
Summary:
"Typical traditional dashboards, at their best, are designed to tell a fixed story. When the story is stable and fits well into the needs of a business process that works just fine. But when the story changes, the dashboard may be irrelevant or if it shows too much data, it may become a puzzle."
Keywords:
Data driven storytelling, data, dashboards, forbes.com


Title:
Data-driven storytelling: the intersection of numbers and narrative
Author:
Joshua Reynolds
Date:
April 25, 2016
Published by:
Marketing Land
Summary:
"Every marketer today wants to be a successful storyteller. Columnist Joshua Reynolds lays out the elements that comprise a story that's likely to resonate and spark enthusiastic sharing."
Keywords:
Data driven storytelling, data, Marketing Land, content marketing


Title:
3 Powerful Examples of Visual, Data-driven Storytelling
Author:
Andrew J. Kaplan
Date:
January 6, 2016
Published by:
linkedin.com
Summary:
"Three creative examples of publishers who are leveraging data to create highly visual, engaging stories. Each of these publishers understands the questions that its audience has and what information readers seek. What answers is your audience searching for? How can your brand use data viz to deepen relationships with your audience by delivering insights and content that cut through the noise?"
Keywords:
Data driven storytelling, data, linkedin.com, Bloomberg, Google, Wall Street Journal


Title:
Why Data Is The Real MVP: 7 Examples of Data-Driven Storytelling by Leading Brands
Author:
Jacqueline Zenn
Date:
November 21, 2016
Published by:
hubspot blog
Summary:
"A roundup of seven brands that are using data to fuel really compelling and sharable stories."
Keywords:
Data driven storytelling, data


Title:
Mobile Technologies to Visualize the City
Author:
Kara Baskin
Date:
Spring 2015
Published by:
MIT Spectrum
Summary:
"DATA-DRIVEN STORYTELLING is the journalistic wave of the future. At websites like the New York Times's Upshot, and Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight, writers are transforming numbers into visual narratives that illuminate modern life. MIT Assistant Professor Sarah Williams, director of the Civic Data Design Lab, is at the forefront of the movement. She uses data, maps, and mobile technologies to develop interactive communications strategies that bring urban issues to broader audiences. Her work is crucial: she combines geographic analysis and design to make problems visible to policy makers. It's a new way of confronting civic challenges, especially in metropolitan areas."
Keywords:
Data driven storytelling, data, MIT


Title:
The Bullet Graph
Author:
Bill Dean
Date:
May 25, 2017
Published by:
Storytelling with Data
Summary:
"The following is a guest post written by Bill Dean. After a recent workshop, Bill shared with me his affinity for bullet graphs. I've never used one before—though can see the potential—so invited him to share his views and an example approach here. Bill leads an engineering and data science team at Microsoft that enables groups across the company to analyze and act on customer feedback at scale. He loves (and makes) both BBQ and data visualizations but hasn't yet mixed the two. For more on Bill or to connect with him, check out LinkedIn or Twitter."
Keywords:
Data driven storytelling, data, bullet graph, Microsoft


Title:
Storytelling with Data Gallery
Author:
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Date:
2017
Published by:
Storytelling with Data
Summary:
"At Storytelling with Data, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic shares practical tips and examples of effective data visualization and storytelling with data as well as videos and popular posts."
Keywords:
Data driven storytelling, data, bullet graph


Title:
Data Storytelling: Using visualization to share the human impact of numbers
Author:
Jock Mackinlay, Robert Kosara, and Michelle Wallace
Date:
2017
Published by:
Tableau
Summary:
"This whitepaper explores the evolution of storytelling throughout human history, focusing on how modern data visualization tools can be used to tell especially powerful stories with numbers."
Keywords:
Data driven storytelling, data