The Art of Communicating Data
Hana M. K.
Do you want to learn how to communicate data effectively and confidently? Whether it's through data visualizations, reports, or presentations, we will share tips and tricks each week on this show to help you hone your data communication skills. Every episode will leave you with actionable steps to improve these skills and will sometimes feature guest experts sharing their own experiences and advice. This show is hosted by Hana, a geographer turned data analyst and an introvert who loves public speaking.
You can find show notes on our website: https://trending-analytics.com/podcast
You can find show notes on our website: https://trending-analytics.com/podcast
Episodes
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Aug 3, 2022 • 29min
Gain Influence by Improving your Data Communication Skills with Britney Lovett
To kick-off the 2nd season, listen to our guest, Britney Lovett, share her advice and tips on how to improve your data communication skills as an industry professional. She's a lead data analyst and has also started a free mentorship program to help data professionals.
Mar 9, 2022 • 8min
7 Different Types of Data Stories
Have you heard about these 7 different types of data stories? In this week's episode, I review this data storytelling framework with you so you can use this anytime you feel stuck on what story to tell with your data. I've also linked a helpful article with data visualization examples for each of these in the show notes.
Mar 2, 2022 • 18min
Starting your First Data Job? Communication Tips from a BI Analyst & Former Tableau Ambassador, Mujahed Syed
Are you starting a new data role? Or maybe you are new to the data viz world? If either is true, listen to this interview with BI Analyst Mujahed Syed, a Phoenix Tableau User Group co-lead and former Tableau Ambassador. He shares his communication tips as well as how he presents his dashboards to his clients.
Feb 23, 2022 • 24min
Confidently Communicate your Work and Recommendations with Katie Fernandez
Katie is a data analyst in the healthcare industry with an educational background in math. In this episode she shares her tips on how to confidently communicate your data work. We also have a segment where she advises on how to present certain data terms. You can find ways to connect with her listed in the show notes associated with this episode.
Feb 16, 2022 • 10min
Data Viz Critiquing: Tips on How to Provide and Ask for Feedback
Are you "drive-by" critiquing or have witnessed others do this online publicly? In this episode, I share advice on how to tactfully provide feedback to people sharing their data work online...as well as how to ask for it for your own work.
Feb 9, 2022 • 11min
5 Ways to Improve your Data Visualizations
I'm sharing 5 ways you can improve your data visualizations. It doesn’t matter which tool you use to make your charts since these tips apply to most tools. This isn't an exhaustive list so let me know if you want to hear more tips. You can email me at hana@trending-analytics.com.
Feb 3, 2022 • 7min
How to Captivate your Audience from the Start of your Virtual Presentations
In today’s episode you'll learn how to start your virtual presentation in a way that engages and captivates your audience’s attention from the very beginning. This is actually one of the lessons from my new course on virtual presentations. Enroll today to get it at a discount: https://trending-analytics.com/virtual-presentations/.
Jan 26, 2022 • 9min
Why and How You Should Improve Your Audience's Graphicacy
In this episode I’m going to explain why you should take opportunities to improve your audience’s graphicacy and some suggestions on how you can start doing so. I'll also share why *not* showing unfamiliar charts to your audience can sometimes be a bad thing.
Jan 19, 2022 • 10min
My Communication Struggles and Journey
In this episode I open up more and share about my communication struggles and journey. I also share lessons I've learned more recently working in the data field about these skills.
Jan 12, 2022 • 8min
Why You Should Visualize Your Data
In this episode, I provide an overview of data visualization as an effective form of communicating data. We also talk about exploratory vs explanatory visualizations and when providing visualizations can help your audience vs showing them all the data.
You can find show notes here: https://trending-analytics.com/episode-5-why-you-should-visualize-your-data/
