Data and Power
The average is one of the most used numbers in business. It's also one of the most reliably misleading. Here's what it tends to hide, and why that matters for how you tell stories with data.
Kat Greenbrook
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How to tell a data story when your audience is hostile
Most advice about data storytelling assumes a receptive audience. But that's not always the room you're in. Here's what helps when it isn't.
Kat Greenbrook
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In meetings, you'll hear "the data speaks for itself." But data comes from a world already shaped by systems of power. Here's what that means for how we communicate it.
Kat Greenbrook
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Every dataset is the product of choices. Most of the time those choices go unexamined because defaults are invisible. Social data literacy is the ability to see them.
Kat Greenbrook
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