Business
Kimberly Herrington’s passionate about data storytelling. And she’s not alone. Across the globe, people are eating up books and courses about this relatively new story niche. Why? Because they realize that our ability to generate data far outperforms our ability to communicate and act on them. Data storytelling goes beyond simply telling the story of how you got your data, or explaining what a specific plot point means. As we discover in this episode, it helps us figure out what questions we need to ask to guide data collection, and who needs to understand those data to make sure they get used. That’s exactly what Kim is doing, through her work as a data journalist and creator of #BuffaloBusinessIntelligence. Just in the last year, she’s been able to use data to advance health innovation and fuel change in her home state of New York, by helping to accelerate access to the Internet for thousands of citizens during the pandemic with WIFI Warriors. She also promotes data education and literacy, building on her own studies with BI Brainz. Data storytelling’s just getting started. If you want great tips about how to bring it into your work, then this episode is for you.