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How to find a story in data: What a news reporter would do

September 7, 2016 by Ted Cuzzillo

Originally published on December 15, 2015 in BI This Week, a TDWI publication.

A data analyst raised her hand in a class I taught on data storytelling and asked the question I hadn’t even thought about since journalism school: How do you “see” a story in a jumble of facts?

It’s a novel problem for data analysts, but it’s an old one for journalists. In fact, as confusing as the task seems to analysts, the confusion is a mystery to journalists. Don’t analysts know a story when they see one?

Now in the grand new confluence, journalists use data and analysts tell stories — and each side shudders with the other’s ham-handed work.… Read the rest “How to find a story in data: What a news reporter would do”

Filed Under: storytelling Tagged With: BI This Week, journalism, Max Galka, storytelling Leave a Comment

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