Module 6 - Storytelling
Overview and Deliverables
- 10/5: Attend the course meetup at 8:00PM Eastern
- Story 3 is due at the end of this week (Sunday 10/11)
The goal of this week is to learn about different narrative structures and how to incorporate these structures into your data visualizations.
Readings
- Storytelling with Data - Chapter 7: Lessons in Storytelling
- Wilke - Chapter 29: Telling a story and making a point
Meetup
Slides: Meetup 6 - Narrative Structures (PDF)
In this meetup we describe several commonly used story arcs and apply them to data analysis and visualization. Common pitfalls that arise when trying to present data to non-data-scientist audiences are presented.
A sample data story is also available: Electricity and Carbon Over Time (PDF)