Telling Stories With Data

Telling Stories With Data

In Ways That Aren't Boring

Rex Hammock Hammock Inc.

Hammock.com SmallBusiness.com

History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte Eward Tufte

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Holmes

Nigel Holmes

USA Today

Richard Feynman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

http://wp.me/pfwII-88

https://maps.google.com/maps/u/0/ms?

msa=0&msid=101721728073617906061.00043d1b3d5639

98ba591&dg=feature

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/?

forceredirect=yes#/?part=tunnel-creek

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/05/upshot/how-

the-recession-reshaped-the-economy-in-255-charts.html

http://www.lasvegassun.com/hospital-care/

Finding Data

http://opendata.stackexchange.com/

http://blog.visual.ly/data-sources/

https://scraperwiki.com/

Find the Story in the Data.

http://drewconway.com/zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-diagram

http://www.tylervigen.com/

Beware of Correlations

Visualize Data

http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/07/how-to-turn-everyone-in-your-newsroom-into-a-graphics-

editor/

http://www.google.com/get/mediatools/index.html

http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/07/how-to-turn-everyone-in-your-newsroom-into-a-

graphics-editor/

http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/design-

principles-for-news-apps-graphics

Use Visualized Data To Help Tell the Story