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Storytelling with Data

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

beginnerFreemium3 hoursStorytelling with Data
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It focuses on the part most chart tutorials ignore: turning a correct chart into a clear message, through decluttering, focus, and narrative. Apply its lessons to a real chart you have made and watch it get sharper. The most practical starting point for communicating with data at work.

What you will learn

  • Decluttering and focusing charts
  • Communicating a message with data
  • Choosing effective chart types

How to study it

  1. Read it once, then state the single core claim in your own words without looking. If you cannot, you did not read it closely enough yet.
  2. Note one thing you will change in your own work because of it. An article that changes nothing was entertainment, not study.
  3. Revisit it once a week later; the second pass with a gap is where it sticks.