Storytelling with Data

Data ScienceData VisualizationStorytelling
Written By Stephen Davies

Audience:

Professionals who want to strengthen their ability to work with data and create clear, effective visualizations

Duration: 1 Day

Delivery: Virtual (2 half days) or in-person (1 full days)

Poorly designed visualizations—whether in charts, reports, dashboards, or presentations—can create confusion and, at worst, lead to misguided decisions. This course introduces participants to core principles of storytelling with data, best practices in visualization and design, enabling them to communicate insights more effectively. Whether working in Power BI, coding in R or Python, building charts in Excel, or presenting in PowerPoint, participants will learn to create clear, impactful, and meaningful visualizations.

Course overview:

  • How to storytell with data

  • Biases and risks

  • Learning from history

  • Human perception

  • How we visualize data (input, pre-attentive cognition, gestalt organization, attentive cognition)

  • Colour theory

  • Creating a narrative and story

  • Chart type deep dive

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