Telling Human Stories With Data

Robust data analysis underpins every business decision, public sector project and non-profit initiative. But data in its raw form often fails to convince crucial lay audiences – either due to its complexity or due to suspicion and mistrust. And you can’t help get guide the world in the right direction made if you alienate key decision-makers or the public.

Schedule:

6:30pm - 7:00pm - ODSC Intro, Pizza & Refreshments

7:00pm - 7:50pm - Talk

7:50pm - 8:00pm - Q&A

8:00pm - 8:30pm - Networking

This talk, delivered by journalist and data visualization specialist Alan Rutter, will cover an audience-centered approach to visualizing data. It will introduce tried-and-tested techniques for communicating data-driven stories effectively to people from a broad range of backgrounds and deal with some of the common problems that practitioners encounter.