The Present Beyond Measure Show: Data Storytelling, Presentation & Visualization

Today's guest is a woman who has had a formative impact on my journey and whose latest book is my new desktop Bible for data presentation.

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic is the CEO and Founder of Storytelling with Data, a company providing workshops and presentations that teach the basics of data visualization and how to tell compelling stories with data through theory, practical application, and clearly articulated and demonstrated lessons.

She is the author of Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals and her newest book, Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice .

She is also the host of the Storytelling With Data podcast and this year, her company launched a Storytelling with Data community, an online community where you can practice in a low risk setting.

The community is highly engaging and members have the opportunity to give and receive feedback and engage in conversations with others.

In this episode, Cole shares the wisdom of her book which is packed with real-world data examples, business scenarios, and brainstorming exercises.

In This Episode, You'll Learn...

• How Cole's passion for making meaning out of data came to be.
• All about Cole's latest book, Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice .
• The five-phase SWD storytelling model to nail your data stories every time
• How to apply classical narrative structure in a business context
• How to help your audience with transitions between the data they are familiar with and the data they need to know.

How to Keep Up with Cole:

• ●● Twitter
• ●● LinkedIn
• ●● Storytelling with Data Blog

People, Blogs, and Resources Mentioned:

• ●● Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
• ●● Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
• ●● Stephanie Evergreen.
• ●● Catherine Madden, Illustrator
• ●● Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte
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On the cusp of holiday turkey and tree trimming mayhem, I take a pause from Autumn Author Madness to tell a personal story of being criticised by a member of the industry and how it taught me an important lesson on response and kindness.

I also express my undying gratitude for your continuing support as my listener, and share how I'll be working even harder to get to know you in 2020.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Blog post for this episode
• My Data Presentation + Storytelling Bootcamp online course
• My private workshops

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Nancy Duarte is the founder of Duarte, Inc., a global leader behind some of the most influential visual messages in business and culture. It is the largest design firm in Silicon Valley and also the fifth largest female employer in the area.

Nancy is a communication expert and as a persuasion specialist and she has she cracked the code for effectively incorporating story into business communications.

She has been a speaker at a number of Fortune 500 companies and counts 8 of the top 10 brands in her firm's clientele.

She is the author of six books and today, she shares a wealth of information about her brand new book, DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story.

Tune in to this episode where Nancy shares amazing and actionable tips and tricks for storytelling in data, reaching stakeholders and communicating effectively with the executive suite while also sharing about her new book and some of the mind-blowing concepts she introduces.

In This Episode, You'll Learn...

• The importance of being able to not only understanding data, but also to communicate the findings effectively with your audience using storytelling.
• Best practices for getting seen as a leader and inspiration to others in your workplace.
• The three acts of telling your data story.
• How stakeholders and people in the executive suite think and how you can best reach them in a positively efficient way.

How to Keep Up with Nancy:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn

People, Blogs, and Resources Mentioned:

• DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story by Nancy Duarte
• Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte
• Slideology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte
• Expert Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Creating a Mass Movement of People Who Will Pay for Your Advice by Russell Brunson
• Jeff Weiner
• My new webinar, "How to Present Compelling Data Stories in PowerPoint and Become the In-Demand Source for Insights {Without Putting People to Sleep}"

To view the show notes & resources for this episode, visit LeaPica.com/050 .

Alberto Cairo is not only a highly revered mind in the data visualization world, he brings a fresh perspective on keeping your charts honest in his brand new book, How Charts Lie..

If you're looking for a way to create and interpret charts accurately and in integrity, this interview is for you.

Alberto is a celebrated visualization educator, designer, and consultant. He is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communications of the University of Miami and he is also the director of visualization program at UM's Center for Computational Science.

He is also the author of two other data viz Bibles The Truthful Art, and The Functional Art.

In this episode, Alberto Cairo provides his unmatched wisdom on chart creation and interpretation. He debunks the myth of "a picture speaks a thousand words" when it comes to visualization and shares how to create charts that are as close to the truth as possible.

In This Episode, You'll Learn...

• What Alberto's new book explores the different positive and negative influences that charts have on our perception of truth.
• What he believes was at the root of #SharpieGate and many other media-fueled debacles over data viz
• His thoughts about the myths of charts and how to think about them differently.
• How no statement we make is absolutely true and what we can do to try and move toward the truth end of the spectrum.
• The importance of expressing your level of confidence in facts you are presenting, but to also understand there may be other interpretations.
• The "Me" Factor and how you can use it to make your visualizations more engaging to your audience.
• Ecological fallacy and amalgamation paradoxes that should become part of a general knowledge.

People, Resources, & Links Mentioned

• How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information by Alberto Cairo
• The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication by Alberto Cairo
• Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations by Scott Berinato
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Lifeby Mark Manson
• Spurious Correlations by Tyler Vigen
• Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris
• Thinking Fast and Slowby Daniel Kahneman
• INZight
• Settlers of Catan Board Game

How to Keep Up with Alberto:

Mary Owusu and Pierre DeBois are celebrated experts and speakers in the digital analytics field.

They graciously offered heartbreaking stories of racial oppression and discrimination both in the tech field and their personal lives, helping me unpack and uncomfortably face the dark truth that racism is still at large all around us.

VIEW ALL SHOW NOTES + RESOURCES

• The hidden dark side of racial inequality that still exists in the corporate tech field
• Why listening, empathy, and identity politics are the keys to inspiring activism
• How would-be white allies can take an active role in helping to eradicate racial injustice and inequality (it’s easier than you think)

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• 13 Ways of Looking at a Black Man by Henry Louis Cates
• “13th” - Netflix documentary on the criminalization of African Americans and the US prison industry

• Call your lawmakers with the free 5 Calls App
• Join the Digital Analytics Association’s Anti-Racism Committee with Mary by sending an email to info at daa dot org.
• Self-educate with anti-racism books and movies, and fact-checked news sources like the Winno App

• Mary: Gurubound Website and LinkedIn
• Pierre: Zimana Analytics Blog and LinkedIn