Storytelling with data
This week focuses on storytelling with data—using visuals and language together to make defensible claims. We will emphasize asking the right questions, choosing appropriate visual forms, and crafting clear narratives for different audiences.
This session will introduce data visualization as a tool for thinking and critique rather than decoration. You’ll focus on what will make a visualization clear and effective, how design choices will shape interpretation, and why good visualizations will start with good questions. Using real-world examples, you’ll practice reading charts critically and redesigning ineffective or misleading visuals through hands-on chart makeovers, with an emphasis on aligning questions, data, and visual form.
This session will focus on how visuals and language will work together to communicate insight. You’ll explore how titles, annotations, and text will guide interpretation, and how to structure a simple data story around setup, insight, and implication. Through short exercises, you’ll practice adapting the same visualization for different audiences, learning how thoughtful narrative choices will clarify findings while responsibly communicating uncertainty and limits.
Drops on Monday, due the following Sunday