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1. Data Storytelling
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Porter Thorndike
Technical Director

2. The importance of Titles
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• Nicholas Porter of House Thorndike, first of his name,
• the Rainmaker,
• Thorndeesi of the Green Mountains of Vermont,
• Summa Cum Laude in Fear of Talking to Women,
• Pre-Sales Technical Director of North America,
• unanimously voted best hair at Information Builders,
• Gold Medalist from the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens in the
Men’s Rhythmic Gymnastics Ribbon Stick competition and
• mother of Advanced Visualizations

3. Data Storytelling
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4. Storytelling
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I was vacationing with my family in York Beach, Maine over
the July 4th Holiday. My daughter was playing with a friend
of hers and I snuck up behind them with a cold bucket of
ocean water. I asked them if they were hot and when they
looked at me I dumped the bucket of water on them.
• Your own experiences
• Narration

5. Storytelling
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I was vacationing with my family in
York Beach, Maine over the July 4th
Holiday. My daughter was playing
with a friend of hers and I snuck up
behind them with a cold bucket of
ocean water. I asked them if they
were hot and when they looked at me
I dumped the bucket of water on
them.
• Your own experiences
• Narration
• Imagery

6. Storytelling
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• Your own experiences
• Narration
• Data
• Visualization

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Charles Minard – Sankey Diagram of Napoleon's campaign to Moscow

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John Snow – Map of Cholera outbreak in London

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Census Data

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Citibike Data

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Final Four Data

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http://annkemery.com/four-storytelling-strategies/?es_p=1372510

17. Best practice vs Advanced Viz?
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http://www.computerworld.com/article/3048315/data-analytics/the-inevitability-of-data-visualization-criticism.html#tk.twt_ctw?es_p=1566893&utm_content=buffer24bbb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

18. Poll Question #1
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How do you prefer to communicate your story?
1.Visual best practice
2.Exotic Data Visualization

19. Data Storytelling
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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-hells-gotten-into-daniel-murphy/
• Current Events/Journalism
• Visualization
• Narration

20. StephenFew
Is there a better metric?
Why is this important?
Is that good?
“Design must become an innovative, highly creative, cross-
disciplinary tool responsive to the true needs of men. It must
be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the
earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.”

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http://www.davidmccandless.com/

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http://www.davidmccandless.com/

23. StephenFew
What Is the Best Response to Bad Practices?
https://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=2154
During the last two days, I spent a great deal of time corresponding with my friend Alberto
Cairo after he informed me that he was hosting a public lecture by David McCandless at
the University of Miami. Alberto and I are both critical of McCandless’ infographics. I am
more passionate in my criticism, however, perhaps because I frequently and directly
encounter the ill effects of McCandless’ influence. More than anyone else working in data
visualization today, McCandless has influenced people to design data visualizations in
ways that are eye-catching but difficult to read and often inaccurate. Also more than
anyone else, when my readers and students talk about the challenges that they face in the
workplace because their bosses and clients expect eye-candy rather than useful
information effectively displayed, they identify McCandless as the source of this problem.

24. What Skills are required to be a data storyteller?
 Curiosity/Hypothesis
 Data
 Find/Access
 Wrangle
 Discover
 Analytical
 Communication
 Visualization
 Narration
 Conclusion?
 Design
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25. What technologies are used?
R is used in every step of the data journalism process: for cleaning
and processing data, for exploratory graphing and statistical analysis,
for models deploying in real time as and to create publishable data
visualizations. We write R code to underpin several of our popular
interactives, as well, like the Facebook Primary and our historical Elo
ratings of NBA and NFL teams. Heck, we’ve even styled a custom
ggplot2 theme. We even use R code on long-term investigative
projects.
-Andrew Flowers
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http://flowingdata.com/2016/07/12/r-in-the-data-journalism-workflow-at-fivethirtyeight/

26. Nate Silver
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http://fivethirtyeight.com/

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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-juiced-balls-the-new-steroids/

29. Kat Downs-Mulder
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http://postgraphics.tumblr.com/

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/obama-party/

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http://flowingdata.com/

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http://datausa.io/

34. Alberto Cairo
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35. Giorgia Lupi
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http://giorgialupi.com/work/

36. Giorgia Lupi
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http://giorgialupi.com/work/#/famous-writers-sleep-habit-and-productivity//

37. Dr. Randal Olsen
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http://www.randalolson.com/blog/

38. Porter Thorndike
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/porter-thorndike-748bba89?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile

39. Porter Thorndike
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https://twitter.com/PorterThorndike

40. Poll Question #2
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Who is the greatest data storytelling Rockstar?
1.Nate Silver
2.Nathan Yau
3.John Snow
4.Charles Minard
5.Kat Downs-Mulder
6.Other

41. Data Storytelling
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How can I do it?

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Data Storytelling in WebFOCUS

43. How can we help?
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44. How can we help?
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45. Analyze

46. Discover

47. It’s likean Investigation

48. Answerthe What

49. Answerthe why

50. Present–Tellthe Story

51. The Future
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Natural Language Generation

52. What arethe components?

53. Don’t be intimidated!