The document announces a data storytelling workshop on January 23rd 2018 to be led by Elena Simperl. The workshop will explore how to make data more engaging for people by helping them tell their own data stories, and examine what types of data stories people share and why. It will also discuss how people find and make sense of data, whether games can help familiarize people with data, and when data goes viral. The workshop leader Elena Simperl is affiliated with the University of Southampton's interdisciplinary Web Science lab.