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This is Datadoodle

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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”

Narrative and analytics: brothers

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Dave Wells, my collaborator in a TDWI course on data storytelling, tears up a popular misconception about data storytelling and data analytics.

On the surface, narrative storytelling appears to be the opposite of analytics – anecdotal instead of quantitative. But quantities aren’t the only way, or necessarily the ideal way to convey information. Not everyone in business is a quant who thinks natively in numbers. Some think in pictures, thus the popularity of data visualization: “Show me the shape of things, not the quantities. …” Visualization is powerful, but even more powerful is the ability to connect visuals, and to tell a story with data.

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Data driven? No, you’re story driven, says German data scientist

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Just when data seems to be approaching maturity as a touchstone in business, along comes a data scientist with doubts. Data is like the stone in stone soup, he says. It has not a single calorie of meaning.

“The beef is in data fiction,” says Joerg Blumtritt, CEO of Munich-based Datarella and consultant to a long string of large European and American clients in manufacturing and media. He comes to his observations after years of consulting and research.

“Fiction” in the same breath as data? Any kind of story at all frightens some data people, and now you talk about fiction!… Read the rest “Data driven? No, you’re story driven, says German data scientist”