Data Journalism

One of the most important parts of crafting your narrative is ensuring you know how to effectively communicate uncertainty in data.  Often, when I work with partners or clients, they want to tell [...]

Looking for stories with a specific kind of appeal is a great way to pare down your options when preparing to craft data stories. Most narratives will vary in strength and appeal. Many are often [...]

Knowing what story you want to tell is only the first step in communicating what your data has to say. Next, you need to choose what type of data narrative you want to overlay it with. When I [...]

Do you know what confidence intervals are? If you said no, you’re not alone. If you said yes… how sure are you? We hear about confidence intervals all the time when discussing statistics and data [...]

Continuing the blog mini-series I’ve been doing over the last couple weeks about ensuring that we use data correctly, this week’s post is about the prosecutor’s fallacy. But while my other posts [...]

I have attended many academic conferences where ideas, results, and breakthroughs were communicated in incredibly dense scientific jargon. In specialized fields, we often wear very specific and [...]