Telling stories with data
Communicating data to an audience
Harkanwal Singh / @kamal_hothi
Data editor at the New Zealand Herald
Why stories and data
Or, why is there a journalist talking about data in this room
- Data and journalism in newsrooms in NZ
- Our audience
- Feedback loop on a scale (Election)
Narrative in data sets
Or, why you should mistrust headlines
Examples - NCEA and deciles
- Choosing a narrative
- Compelling narrative versus truth
- It's about real people
- The story is never finished
What is the purpose of a visualisation?
Evolution from Tufte to Bret Victor
The role of interactions
Questions?
If you have a data set you think is interesting, let me know