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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 [...]

Many of our workshop participants mistakenly believe that there is really only one way to tell stories with data. Like “data stories” is somehow a genre of its own. As if the mere inclusion of [...]

The first step in creating data stories that engage and educate is to identify the basic elements of your data story. This is our first post in a series on data storytelling — look for additional [...]

As much as I hate to say it, summer is over. And as students and teachers alike gear up for another school year, we thought it might make sense to kick off our return to blogging with something [...]