Storytelling with Data

chapter ninepractice more at work

The final chapter of exercises focuses on how to apply the storytelling with data lessons at work. You’ve encountered a good amount of this guidance already and I encourage you to refer back to the practice at work exercises throughout this book when facing a specific project: the initial exercise in this chapter will help you do just that.

Additionally, you’ll find guidance for further integrating the storytelling with data process into your and your colleagues’ day-to-day work. This will help you examine and practice the totality of the lessons we’ve covered over the course of SWD and this book. You’ll be provided with resources and guides for facilitating group learning and discussion and assessment rubrics that can be used to evaluate your own or others’ work. We’ll review the important role of feedback and how to best give and receive it, as well as setting—and helping others set—good goals for continuing to improve your data storytelling skills. There is no such thing as an “expert” in this space; regardless of skill level, there is always room for further growth. We can all continue to refine our abilities and become more nuanced in how we communicate with data.

Awesome work completing the exercises so far (and if you haven’t completed them all, that’s okay—it means you have more to go back to!). Next, let’s practice some more at work!

To be helpful, let’s first review some ideas for setting you and your team up for success.