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The story made me do it Scapegoating data storytelling to cover bad data analysis

May 11, 2021 by Ted Cuzzillo

Now and then a data analyst pipes up with a warning about storytelling. It’s a menace, they say. It’s so potent, they say, that it stands to corrupt even data, the twenty-first century’s supposedly immaculate compass.

Most recently, that corruption touched even a hackathon involving Canadian women’s rugby, as documented in a recent blog post. In “The Dangerous Allure of the Narrative,” Oscar Goodloe spells out how narrative seduced him and his fellow hackers.

Toward the end of a “lighthearted hackathon,” he and his data analytics team realized their results were invalid. They blamed the irresistible influence of storytelling.

The competition began as competing analytics teams received a set of data.… Read the rest “The story made me do it Scapegoating data storytelling to cover bad data analysis
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Two recent “storytelling” tools for public audiences Toucan spoonfeeds data’s insight while Juicebox cultivates data skills

April 27, 2021 by Ted Cuzzillo

The data-shy among us have two friends in the software business. One a few years old and one new this year. Nashville, Tennessee-based Juice Analytics rolled out Juicebox in February to join Paris, France-based Toucan Toco’s product Toucan for a pain-free “story” based entry into data analysis.

Important as such products are for the business audiences, they’re critical for the public as governments at all levels, particularly local. Understanding data will quickly become a basic skill of city life. The pandemic only accelerated that requirement.

On the surface, Toucan and Juicebox appear similar. Each touts “data storytelling,” and both come clothed in bright colors.… Read the rest “Two recent “storytelling” tools for public audiences Toucan spoonfeeds data’s insight while Juicebox cultivates data skills”

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This is Datadoodle

April 22, 2021 by Ted Cuzzillo

Where’s Datadoodle? It’s been on everyone’s mind, absolutely everyone’s. Well, not really. Most longtime readers probably assumed that the latest sabbatical was just Datadoodle doing business as usual. Still, the latest pause, from late 2019 until today, was just one of several in the blog’s 14 year history, 

This time was slightly different. I took a full time job as an industry analyst to see if the benefits of a paycheck and camaraderie compensated for lockstep. It didn’t. But I did get to spend 12 months with a remarkably intelligent and humane team. I also learned a few important things about industry analysis, some of which I will apply here.… Read the rest “This is Datadoodle”

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Two recent “storytelling” tools for public audiences Toucan spoonfeeds data’s insight while Juicebox cultivates data skills

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