Here are some important things for preparing for the 6th week:
Exam day (9/29/2022)
- in-person, in class
- only you, your pen, exam paper, and exam answer sheet allowed
- closed book, no mobile phone, no desktop, no iPad, no talking with others, no notes
Review session and Q&A (9/27/2022)
- in-person, in class
- The study guide is here
- Bringing your questions, if any
Week 5 key takeaways
- Elements of telling a good story
- Find the compelling narrative
- Think about your audience
- Be objective and offer balance
- Don’t Censor
- Finally, Edit, Edit, Edit
- Steps to tell a powerful story with data
- What is the [business] problem
- How to measure the [business] impact?
- What’s the available data?
- The initial solution hypothesis
- The solution
- The [business] impact of the solution
- Avoid those while telling a story with data
- Technical terminology
- Step-by-step method description
- Complex statistics
- Infographics versus data visualization
- Infographics can be made up of data visualizations, but data visualizations are not made up of infographics
- The value of infographics
- Get a better sense of big data
- Reduce information overload
- Match the way humans process information
- Storytelling with infographics is not that different from any other type of storytelling
- Tips for designing infographics
- 5-second rule
- Tell one story well
- Minimize text – visualize when possible
- Eliminate legends as much as possible
- Be data transparent (cite sources)
I will release your grades regarding your quiz in the morning of this Saturday.
If you didn’t submit them, please finish by this Friday night.
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