Five easy tips for better data communications

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic shares five simple tips to communicate data effectively in this short keynote presentation from the Data Analytics Career Summit virtual conference. From choosing more straightforward graphs, layering on clarifying words, and standing up to present, these easy-to-implement techniques will benefit anyone needing to communicate something to someone.

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00:00 Intro
02:08 Tip #1: Edit your graph
03:35 Tip #2: Form words
04:45 Tip #3: Focus attention
05:48 Tip #4: Say it out loud
07:10 Tip #5: Stand up
08:09 Putting it all together: show & tell

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[gaurav]

This is by far the best and the simplest video I have ever watched of how to communicate graphs visually. Every element in the graph was clear and explained in a way that anyone can understand. Cole you are truly amazing at how you communicate with data. Thanks for putting this content out.

[monsevidela]

Cole this is amazing, not only are you showing how to improve the graphic, but also how to tell the story when presenting it (one of my mayor pain-points) thank you!

[angelinam]

Loved this session and it will definitely be my reference. It would be great to have more of these types of sessions. Enjoyed the q & section

[SothearithKONGMrMuyKhmer]

Amazing! Thanks a lot for sharing this pieces of advice!

[spilledgraphics]

This video is so exemplary at so many levels, wow. Need to watch several times.

[SlideFormation]

Great lesson. And very impactful way of showing how storytelling works with data. They need to be shown in a couple of steps so that it resembles some kind of movie or novel plot - a journey with climaxes, ups and downs etc.

[thomasaquinas]

Thank you for such a concise and well-written example. Love your content!

[StorytellingcomDados]

Great tips! You are wonderful, Cole! I'm a huge fan from Brazil 😀

[andrewhancock]

Love this example. My only concern is that the shaded background area showing min-to-max is a bit tricky to achieve for many graphing packages. Not impossible, but definitely not as common as other graphing effects. With time, one can figure it out, but if you change analysis environments (and hence, graphing environments) a lot, it's time that you have to factor into the preparation of the presentation. You can, of course, migrate the data to plot from various analysis environments to a common graphing environment, with which you have the most familiarity, but that impacts agility in exploratory analysis and the time overhead again needs to be factored in. It's a great effect, though, and probably worthwhile despite the burden.

[deepakk]

Wow.. The way you converted those bars is amazing. I'm glad I found you in my early days of learning. You are really a great storyteller.

By the way I am just curious to know when will be the winners for the "SWD book" giveaway will be announced? Checking the video everyday to know whether am I lucky. 😊😊

[VicariousPropaganda]

Such amazing content in only a few minutes! I use google sheets to creat a lot of my charts and I’m not seeing how to recreate what you are doing here. What tools are you using? I would love to see content around the real world chart building of these incredible lessons.

[nknkstar]

Powerful presentation in the shortest amount of time... Which tool did you use to both create graphs and to animate those?

[usbugsy]

The hardest part is from 8:13. How do you connect the dots with events to tell a full story? What do I want to learn? Otherwise, it's just reading the PowerPoint.

[statistikochspss-hjalpen]

Would be nice to know how you made min and max (the range) in Excel into that gray area instead of lines at 5:18

[juanalbertocarlotta]

Hello! :)

What tool did you use in animating the chart?

[dakshbhatnagar]

Lovely but how to do this in a Google sheets setup where things are dynamic and the interpretation might change