Recording of the First Live Session
What is Storytelling with Data
Why is Storytelling so powerful: 1
Why is Storytelling so powerful: 2
How to tell stories with data: Overview
Role Play - Audience understanding
A framework for audience analysis
How to deal with mixed audiences
Audience analysis quiz
What is a 'message'?
Can you differentiate between 'messages' and 'titles'?
What makes a message a message?
The Data Storyteller's Core Objective
Why do 'longish' messages help in achieving the data-storyteller's objective?
How to craft a message: the 6W1H method
A cool way to remember the 7 questions :)
Craft clear messages for the given data
The soul of a message - framing
A viral ad uses a key storytelling principle...
The magic ingredient that makes a message impactful
How do you build surprise: the underlying principle of norm-variance
A real-life example of norm-variance from one of the world's best storytellers
The parameters you can use to derive norms
Example of 'Context' based norm
Example of 'Perspective' based norm
The Norm-variance quiz
Making numbers relatable
Curiosity quiz
Using the power of Curiosity
A 3-step process for crafting the question to ask the audience
Covering your bases when trying a 'risky' Curiosity Play
Module 2 - Wrap up!
Recording of the Second Live Session
Introduction to Story Narrative
Beginning with the end in mind
Identify the right Point B
Starting trouble!
Figuring out the right Point A
How to choose the right Point A
The blue pill or the red pill
Find the main point of these paras
You need to BLUF your communication
Organise ideas about podcasts
Messages have buckets - and levels!
Introducing the Minto Pyramid Principle
Deriving the 'higher-level' messages for the Pyramid
A fun Bollywood example of 'vertical flow'!
Find the higher-level idea
Debrief: Example on deriving higher-level idea
Deriving the main message for an email
My personal journey with the Pyramid Principle!
Understanding 'horizontal-flow' in the Pyramid
Navigating the pyramid - top down or bottom up
Creating the most important slide in your presentation
The 5-step process from Excel data to the PowerPoint Slide
Steve Jobs reinforces the point about Narrative trumping visuals
Some standard data-story formats
Recording of the Third Live session
Introduction to Visuals
Choose the right chart for this data
The first step in choosing your chart: Your message
Identify what is wrong with these charts
When we choose the wrong chart even after knowing the message
The second step in choosing your chart: Identify the comparison factor
Quiz - Identify the right comparison factor
Debrief - Identifying the comparison factor in a message
Presenting: The Charts Cheat Sheet!
Choose the right charts for the data
It's not all about charts: A few tips from Infographics
What can we learn from Comic-strip panels!
How to ensure perfect sync between the message and slide contents
Identify the type of error
Debrief - the Type 1 and Type 2 error examples
Use of animation to release the information in bite-sized pieces
Introduction to the Declutter-De-emphasise-Highlight sub-module
Choosing the chart to be 'de-cluttered'
How to declutter a chart - example 1
How to declutter a chart - example 2
Why just decluttering isn't enough
Learning about visual highlighting from Bollywood's song and dance routine
Why do we need visual highlighting in charts?
Examples of de-emphasis and visual highlighting from real life
A detailed walk-through of a visual highlighting example
Applying highlighting principles to a table
Exploring a cool feature to use animation within a chart!
Summarising concepts on visuals
Recording of the Fourth Live Session
It's time to add some engagement!
Why do we need the 'human' story element?
The need for a bird's eye and a worm's eye view
A vivid human story example
How to refine your human story before sharing
Quiz - Human stories
Introduction to analogies - the need for relatability
An example and some tips on using analogies
Quiz - analogies
Intro: How to begin and end well
5 techniques you can use to begin well
4 ways to end memorably
Introduction to Delivery!
Basic do's and don'ts for virtual delivery
Advanced delivery tip 1: How to present individual slides
Advanced delivery tip 1: Creating a script for presenting individual slides
Advanced delivery tip 2: What happens when you present without transitions between slides
Advanced delivery tip 2: How to transition between slides
Advanced delivery tip 2: The secret ingredient that drives a great transition
Quiz - Delivery tips
It's a wrap!
Recording of the Fifth Live Session
