Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice! - Softcover

Nussbaumer Knaflic, Cole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119621496 ISBN 13: 9781119621492

Publisher: Wiley, 2019

Synopsis

Influence action through data! This is not a book. It is a one-of-a-kind immersive learning experience through which you can become—or teach others to be—a powerful data storyteller.
 
Let's practice! helps you build confidence and credibility to create graphs and visualizations that make sense and weave them into action-inspiring stories. Expanding upon best seller storytelling with data's foundational lessons, Let's practice! delivers fresh content, a plethora of new examples, and over 100 hands-on exercises. Author and data storytelling maven Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic guides you along the path to hone core skills and become a well-practiced data communicator. Each chapter includes:

● Practice with Cole: exercises based on real-world examples first posed for you to consider and solve, followed by detailed step-by-step illustration and explanation
● Practice on your own: thought-provoking questions and even more exercises to be assigned or worked through individually, without prescribed solutions
● Practice at work: practical guidance and hands-on exercises for applying storytelling with data lessons on the job, including instruction on when and how to solicit useful feedback and refine for greater impact

The lessons and exercises found within this comprehensive guide will empower you to master—or develop in others—data storytelling skills and transition your work from acceptable to exceptional. By investing in these skills for ourselves and our teams, we can all tell inspiring and influential data stories!

About this title

About the Author

cole nussbaumer knaflic is founder and CEO of storytelling with data, an organization that helps individuals and teams become more effective data communicators through workshops, articles, podcasts and other resources. Learn more at storytellingwithdata.com.

From the Back Cover

Influence action through data!

This is not just a book. It is a one-of-a-kind immersive learning experience through which you can become--or teach others to be--a powerful data storyteller.

Let's practice! helps you build confidence and credibility to create graphs and visualizations that make sense and weave them into action-inspiring stories. Expanding upon best seller storytelling with data's foundational lessons, let's practice! delivers fresh content, a plethora of new examples, and over 100 hands-on exercises. Author and data storytelling maven Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic guides you along the path to hone core skills and become a well-practiced data communicator. Each chapter includes:

PRACTICE with COLE . . . exercises based on real-world examples first posed for you to consider and solve, followed by detailed step-by-step illustration and explanation

PRACTICE on your OWN . . . thought-provoking questions and even more exercises to be assigned or worked through individually, without prescribed solutions

PRACTICE at WORK . . . practical guidance and hands-on exercises for applying storytelling with data lessons on the job, including instruction on when and how to solicit useful feedback and refine for greater impact

The lessons and exercises found within this comprehensive guide will empower you to master--or develop in others--data storytelling skills and transition your work from acceptable to exceptional. By investing in these skills for ourselves and our teams, we can all tell inspiring and influential data stories!

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119621496
• ISBN 13: 9781119621492
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448