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"Springboard" stories prompt data consumers to put themselves in the story
After all, springboard story structure made home bakers jump into cake mix
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Odd siblings: Fairy tales, cake mixes, and "springboard" business stories
Your audience wants something to do, flat characters to inhabit, or cake mixes that let them add eggs
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Found: the George Santos of data management
Five incorrect statements in two sentences
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Former Tableau CMO Elissa Fink tells how she and her team put the once-scrappy startup on the data industry's map
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Replay: How to find a story in data
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Every narrative’s powerful friend
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Tableau Conference’s best data story shows how data give movements teeth
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Replay #2: Three dispatches from the first Tableau conference
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What can you do about the danger of data stories?
Here's a clue: All data comes with stories
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How some data analysts may outrun AI
A scenario for analysts who dream
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Replay: How to analyze unfamiliar data: circle, dive, and riff
Dan Murray's first rule: Don't pre-think.
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Elections are the mother of data stories, even a few about my city council
An inept clique, two contestants, and a spec of data
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Writing resumes for tech pros in 2022
Listen now (29 min) | Jennifer Hay, IT resume specialist, on tech-resume strategies that work
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The 14th century Danse Macabre was a data story
And they did it without Powerpoint
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Mind the gap: New tech races ahead of old tech at our peril
Listen now (19 min) | It’s rooted in behavior and finance more than in tech
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Expensive neglect: New tech on top of old tech without reconciling the two
Listen now (10 min) | Longtime educator and programmer Dave Wells on technical debt from deferred compatibility (10:10)
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Replay from 2011: Still “tool” by any other name
This blog post ran originally in 2011. The unnamed “marketing VP” was actually Elissa Fink, then the Tableau CMO. A marketing VP I know stopped me in…
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Datadoodle by Ted Cuzzillo
Datadoodle by Ted Cuzzillo
Datadoodle is data for data, and doodle is for the humans. I traverse the faultline between data and the people who need it.
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