Data Storytelling and Visualisation.
Course overview.
DATA STORYTELLING AND VISUALISATION TRAINING MALAYSIACompanies spend huge amounts of resources to collect and analyse data. The ability to tell a story about your data is an important skill to provide insights and enable informed decision-making. Unlock insights trapped within your analysis through lessons in data storytelling. Present data in a way that is tailored to the needs of your audience. The best data stories are insightful, compelling and inspire the audience to take action. Learn common data fallacies to avoid misrepresenting data and misleading your audience. Adopt the principles of data visualisation like simplicity, data-ink ratio and Gestalt principles in data storytelling.
The course equips participants with essential skills to draw insights from data, deploy storyboards and present insights using the right visuals. This course is software agnostic. You can apply the techniques learnt to data in any analytics tool.
Key takeaways.
DATA STORYTELLING AND VISUALISATION TRAINING MALAYSIABy the end of the course, participants will:
- Learn to create actionable data visualisations
- Master the art and science of communicating the story of your data
- Explore different types of graphs and charts and how you can use them
- Learn to constructively analyse a data visualisation solution in light of purpose and audience
- Develop an understanding of the latest tools and software for visualising data
- Learn the principles of data visualisation
- Understand the structure of a good data storyboard
- Apply principles of data storytelling and design thinking to create compelling narratives
Who should attend.
Analysts, managers, reporting professionals, executives and business owners who need to derive and share insights from business data, including directors, general managers, finance, sales, HR and data analytics managers, business analysts and BI professionals.
Prerequisites.
No prior knowledge of data storytelling or data visualisation is required.
The programme.
DATA STORYTELLING AND VISUALISATION TRAINING MALAYSIASESSION 1Why Data Storytelling?
- What is data storytelling
- The importance of data storytelling
- The role of data storytelling in an organisation
SESSION 2Common Data Storytelling Mistakes To Avoid
- Not knowing your audience
- Data fallacies to avoid
- Don’t get to the point
- Leaving out valuable context
- Picking the wrong visualisations
SESSION 3Know Your Audience
- Who is your audience?
- What do you want to tell them?
- How can you bring this story to life with your data?
SESSION 4Principles Of Data Storytelling
- The simplicity principle. Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful
- Data-ink ratio: Remove to improve the data-ink ratio
- Emphasise the message of the chart: Provide focus on the most important element to facilitate comparisons or display trend
- Give meaning: Make data meaningful for your audience
- Communicate without deception – Avoid mispresenting with misleading data visualisation
- Remove ambiguity
- Gestalt principles of design
SESSION 5Storyboarding
- Putting together the “Who, What, How” as the “Big Idea”
- Using the “Big Idea” for a consistent narrative
- Structuring the story in a clear and structured way to tell your data story
SESSION 6Choosing The Right Visuals
- Learn about various chart types including bar charts, line charts, area maps, scatter plots, heat maps, pie charts, etc
- Purpose of different chart types
- Choose the right visual to convey the message
SESSION 7Using Design Thinking In Data Storytelling
- Empathise: Understand users and key business questions
- Ideate: Analyse how data is consumed and select the right visualisation
- Evaluate: Validate with users to check how effectively message is acquired
SESSION 8Hands-on Data Storytelling Project
- Applying data storytelling skills including choosing the right fonts, formats and colours
- Brainstorm ideas and concepts for improved effectiveness
Throughout the workshop, participants will work through practical exercises to enhance their knowledge of the data storytelling
Your trainer.
DATA STORYTELLING AND VISUALISATION TRAINING MALAYSIAAlvin Yong is a UK-registered Fellow Chartered and Certified Accountant (FCCA). He obtained his Master of Science in Professional Accountancy (Merit) in 2017 from the University of London.
To bring.
DATA STORYTELLING AND VISUALISATION TRAINING MALAYSIAReviews from our Malaysian clients.
DATA STORYTELLING AND VISUALISATION TRAINING MALAYSIA“Content is very good, notes are sufficiently detailed, presentation is clear and pace is good. Alvin entertained questions calmly, clearly, and with sufficient depth. Very knowledgeable and qualified for the training subject.”
“Alvin is an excellent trainer. He led interesting, interactive and focused discussions during the workshop.”
“Alvin was well prepared, knowledgeable and easy to follow. Level of detail was where it needed to be and the documentation was very thorough. The course went quickly which was always a good sign.”
“Fantastic trainer in terms of knowledge and skills. Extremely friendly, helpful and patient.”
“Good understanding and knowledge of the subject. Attentive and responsive to participants' queries. Presented the subject very clearly.”
“The trainer is knowledgeable. He was helpful. He handled the class material well.”
“Very informative. Gave an excellent count of how-to's.”
“Alvin is a very people person. Sound knowledge in his area of expertise. He carried out the programme well.”
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