Free the Data Podcast

Learn data storytelling tips with Cole from storytelling with data. Chapters below as well!

// About Cole

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic tells stories with data. She is SWD CEO and author of best-selling books storytelling with data: let’s practice! and storytelling with data: a data visualization guide for business professionals, which has been translated into a dozen languages, used as a textbook by more than 100 universities and serves as the course book for tens of thousands of SWD workshop participants. For more than a decade, Cole and her team have delivered interactive learning sessions highly sought after by data-minded individuals, companies, and philanthropic organizations all over the world. They also help people create graphs that make sense and weave them into compelling stories through the popular SWD community, blog, podcast and other resources.

// Links

Online SWD Community https://community.storytellingwithdata.com/

SWD YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjhGlILWNloXJdR2NTCBMlA

Blog http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/

SWD Podcast http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/podcast

// Books

storytelling with data: let’s practice! 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119621496/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=storytellingwithdata-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1119621496&linkId=c74bc50a287b2986edae7e3b95f9f5f4

storytelling with data: a data visualization guide for business professionals

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119002257?ie=UTF8&creativeASIN=1119002257&linkCode=xm2&tag=storytellingwithdata-20

// Chapters

0:00:00 Intro

0:06:17 How Cole Started Storytelling With Data

0:08:41 Using Natural Human Behavior to Your Advantage

0:11:13 Cole's Entreprenueral Journey

0:16:44 Data Viz Guiding Principles

0:21:37 Storytelling Guiding Principles

0:29:09 Who Makes a Good Storyteller

0:34:41 What Storytelling Can Do For Your Career

0:36:54 What Tools Should You Know

0:41:20 Choosing the Right Chart Type

0:51:22 How to Measure Efficacy in Data Viz

0:53:13 Exploratory versus Explanatory

0:56:27 Defining a Good Graph

0:57:22 What's Next For Storytelling With Data?

1:01:15 Tips for Consuming Data Visualizations

1:05:39 How to Connect with Cole Online

1:07:11 Outro

Marketing dollars power loads of industries that surround our lives. In this episode we talk with Eric Ramos who is the Director of Data Analytics at Business Online, a B2B marketing firm, about how combining data from disparate sources leads to greater marketing insights and ultimately sales for their clients. 

How to Connect with Eric Ramos:

- TWITTER: https://twitter.com/eramos42

- LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eramos42/

- COMPANY WEBSITE: https://www.businessol.com/ , https://www.kudoz.io/

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Being able to see and understand your data is at the heart of Tableau's mission. Since they're debut Tableau has upended the data analytics industry with these principles and their easy to use self-service analytics software. On today's episode we hear from Tableau Evangelist, data veteran, and former magician, Andy Cotgreave on the keys to success in data as well as how Tableau software enables you to succeed. 

How to Connect with Andy:

- TWITTER: https://twitter.com/acotgreave

- LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/acotgreave/

- COMPANY WEBSITE: https://www.tableau.com/

- https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/shneiderman-s-eight-golden-rules-will-help-you-design-better-interfaces

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Building trust into the metrics your company use to guide their decision making is a difficult task. Former Facebook and AirBnB Data Product Manager James Mayfield shares his insights into why focusing on the metrics is the right path to take to enable trust in your companies data.

How to Connect with James:

- COMPANY WEBSITE: https://transform.co/

- EMAIL: [email protected]

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Computer Vision is a popular field of Artificial Intelligence that enables applications such as facial recognition and self-driving cars. In this episode we hear from Dr. Satya Mallick who has been working in the field since it's birth on all the various aspect of Computer Vision and how you can learn it to break into the field of AI.

How to Connect with Satya:

- COMPANY WEBSITE: https://learnopencv.com/

- TWITTER: https://twitter.com/learnopencv

- LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyamallick

- EMAIL: [email protected]

Links referenced in episode:

https://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/

https://aipaygrad.es/

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Data engineering has historically involved extracting data from disperate sources, transforming it to a standard layout, and then loading it into a new database for analytics. Usually these data engineering pipeline jobs would run on a schedule such as nightly or weekly. In today's fastpaced high-tech world however the need for data closer to real-time, meaning when it was first generated, is higher than ever. In today's episode we hear from Dustin Vannoy who is a consultant and blogger in the streaming data space about how to use Apache Spark, the most popular streaming analytics platform.

How to connect with Dustin:

- WEBSITE: https://dustinvannoy.com/

- TWITTER: https://twitter.com/dustinvannoy

- LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinvannoy/

- YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYdC0t9EFtyVAs0-cwqVCTw/videos

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A key ingredient missing in many organizations today is how to read and understand data. Ben Jones, founder of DataLiteracy.com, shares his insights into what Data Literacy is and how your company can benefit from increasing your level of it.

How to Connect with Ben Jones:

- TWITTER: https://twitter.com/DataRemix

- LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrjones/

- COMPANY WEBSITE: https://dataliteracy.com/

References Mentioned in this Week's Episode:

- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information https://amzn.to/3eg9nsw

- Hans Rosling: The Best Stats You've Ever Seen https://youtu.be/hVimVzgtD6w

- William Playfair: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=2929

- Christoph Scheiner: http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/scheiner.html

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A Chief Data Officer is an easily misunderstood role. On today's show Peter Nettesheim helps us understand the role of a Chief Data Officer and what they can bring to your organization. 

How to Connect with Peter:

COMPANY WEBSITE - https://www.alignbi.com/

LINKEDIN - https://www.linkedin.com/in/peternettesheim/

EMAIL - [email protected]

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The languages you learn as a data scientist are important to the path your career will take. In this interview Eric Stone (head of Data Science at Flipside Crypto) shares his insights into what languages are popular and you should consider for your data science career.

How to Connect with Eric:

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/flipsidecrypto and https://twitter.com/theericstone

COMPANY WEBSITE: https://www.flipsidecrypto.com/

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James Mission shares insights on how his new company is providing an analytics platform for crypto currencies and his journey to a director of data analytics.  

Connect with James: 

COMPANY WEBSITE: https://www.flipsidecrypto.com/ 

FLIPSIDE CRYPTO VELOCITY APP: https://app.flipsidecrypto.com/velocity

FLIPSIDE CRYPTO DISCROD COMMUNITY: https://discord.gg/p792zukG

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