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Week - 8 - Data Storytelling

The document summarizes three videos on storytelling with data using various tools. The first video discusses methods of narrating stories with data, emphasizing the use of numbers, visuals, text, and illustrations. The second video focuses on using Power BI for visualizing and summarizing data, while the third video demonstrates creating dynamic narratives in Excel using COVID-19 data.

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Week - 8 - Data Storytelling

The document summarizes three videos on storytelling with data using various tools. The first video discusses methods of narrating stories with data, emphasizing the use of numbers, visuals, text, and illustrations. The second video focuses on using Power BI for visualizing and summarizing data, while the third video demonstrates creating dynamic narratives in Excel using COVID-19 data.

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Introduction

Narrate a story: (Video 1)


Video summary

This video explains different methods of narrating a story using data, emphasizing the
importance of storytelling in making data memorable and shareable.

Highlights:

• 00:003 Introduction to storytelling


o Importance of storytelling in data communication
o Different methods to narrate a story
o Making data memorable and shareable
• 00:344 Using numbers
o Showing numbers can be powerful
o Example of a correlation matrix
o Understanding correlations through numbers
• 01:005 Using visuals
o Charts to narrate stories
o Example of declining COVID-19 cases
o Visuals conveying trends effectively
• 01:226 Using text
o Communicating data through words
o Example of a plain text report
o Common method of storytelling
• 01:587 Using illustrations
o Comic stories for data communication
o Example of a comic on obesity in Tonga
o Combining illustrations with data
• 02:338 Combining methods
o Using text, numbers, charts, and illustrations
o Example of a story on China’s economy
o Tools for creating comprehensive data stories

Smart narratives with Power BI (Video 2)


Video summary

This video demonstrates how to use Power BI’s Smart Narratives feature to visualize and
summarize data. It covers importing data, creating visualizations, applying filters, and
generating automated summaries.

Highlights:
• 00:003 Introduction to Power BI
o Visualizing data
o Importing data from Excel
o Exploring the interface
• 01:224 Creating Visualizations
o Selecting fields
o Generating graphs
o Applying filters
• 02:005 Automated Summaries
o Right-click to summarize
o Insights from graphs
o Customizing summaries
• 04:006 Interactive Summaries
o Adding custom metrics
o Using chatbot-like questions
o Example: Total count of cities
• 05:007 Dynamic Updates
o Filtering data
o Updating summaries
o Example: Removing and adding Tokyo

Narratives with Excel (Video 3)


Video summary

This video tutorial demonstrates how to create dynamic narratives for storytelling using
Microsoft Excel. It uses COVID-19 data to illustrate the process of generating automatic
narratives based on data trends.

Highlights:

• 00:133 Introduction to creating narratives


o Using Excel for storytelling
o Example with COVID-19 data
o Overview of the process
• 01:144 Demo of dynamic narratives
o Pivot table with COVID-19 data
o Automatic narrative generation
o Changing country selections
• 02:015 Creating a reference table
o Source table from pivot table
o Using VLOOKUP for dynamic updates
o Populating values based on selections
• 02:536 Generating graphs and trends
o Creating histograms from reference table
o Adding trend lines for visualization
o Computing slope for trend analysis
• 05:057 Defining narrative conditions
o Setting boundary conditions for trends
o Creating explanations for different trends
o Using Excel formulas for dynamic narratives
• 07:008 Finalizing and customizing narratives
o Concatenating sentences for titles
o Referencing dynamic titles in graphs
o Applying the method to various scenarios

• Sample Excel

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