Are You Ready to Do a Story Like This?

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The past two years have been a bull market on people who want to make sure that the world understands that correlation isn't always correlation much less causation when it comes to these these these claims that have been made so yeah absolutely I mean. It took me a long time to build the confidence that each time I published a story I was like oh god what if I kept up a number right you just takes a while you learn to trust yourself but absolutely my favorite example just because it's so goofy is onetime I did this story and this is why I love my job at the post because they let me do stories like this by one time I did a story it was literally like what if when Donald

As analysts, we conduct analysis on behalf of the business to (hopefully) provide them with clear and objective information to help with making decisions. We use visualizations of data and, when we're really hitting our stride, we even tell data stories. So, how does that compare to mainstream journalism and the stories they tell, especially when there is data that can be visualized in support of the story or the analysis? There could be no better guest than Philip Bump, long-time columnist for The Washington Post, author of the How to Read This Chart weekly newsletter, and author of a soon-to-be-published book about the baby boom generation! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.