Saturday, 21 March 2015

How to Tell a Story with Millions of Rows of Data

Ellie Fields of Tableau the addresses the misconception that data stories are for small data sets and explains how to identify the narrative that emerges from huge amounts of information.

How many stories does New York City hold? Eight million, says the famous film “The Naked City.”

“That’s a lot of data,” say people in our world.

Data storytelling is something that people who work with data are talking about quite a lot. The success of news outlets focused on data journalism – FiveThirtyEight, Vox, and The New York Times’ Upshot, for example, is proof of this.

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