Data Journalism

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 [...]

Happy holidays from the team here at Datassist! Because we know everyone is winding down — or up — for the holidays, we’re going to keep this week’s post fairly light. Also, we’ll be taking a [...]

Fake news! It’s (sadly) a term we’re all familiar with, regardless of where we live or what language we speak. But it isn’t exclusive to social media or American politics. Data stories are just [...]

Food and data — probably my two favourite things in the whole world. (OK, my family probably ranks pretty highly too.) And contrary to popular opinion, both food and data are excellent things to [...]