{"id":6482,"date":"2018-02-13T10:26:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=6482"},"modified":"2018-02-13T10:26:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:26:48","slug":"love-data-week-2018-telling-stories-with-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2018\/02\/13\/love-data-week-2018-telling-stories-with-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Data Week 2018: Telling Stories with Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We are continuing our Love Data Week<\/a> series at the DePaul University Library with today’s topic: Telling Stories with Data<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The most compelling stories often have a significant insight or breakthrough because of data analysis and\/or a data visualization presenting data in a way that helps us to understand and digest it. Wei Yin at Columbia University has a fantastic post on 4 tools for telling stories with data<\/a> to help you get started with how you can tell a story with your data.<\/p>\n

However, data alone can’t tell a story; good stories are created from a mix of personal (anecdotes) and impersonal (aggregate statistics), as well as how local issues fit into a national or global framework. The late\u00a0Hans Rosling<\/a>, a professor and the founder of the Gapminder Foundation<\/a>, was a master at this. His TED talks on data<\/a> and what it tells us about global development have been viewed tens of millions of times. The video below is a look at how data and data visualization can tell an effective story that has been developing over the last 200 years in just over four minutes:<\/p>\n