Journalism
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Storytelling and Focus
There are many differences between data analysis and presentation. One that is often overlooked is the need to focus a story to just the essential points, and not overload it with unnecessary detail. Minard’s famous map is a great example of reduction to the bare minimum.
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Storytelling: Minard vs. Nightingale
There is a lot of confusion about storytelling and what tells a story. I have argued previously that stories do not tell themselves. Rather, we tell the stories given raw materials. Some of these materials lend themselves better to ad-hoc storytelling, so we tend to say that they actually tell the story, when it’s really […]
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From Data to Trends
After my recent abstraction exercise created some interesting discussion but kind of went off in a slightly wrong direction, here is another experiment.