ANSWERS TO “2023 QUIZ”
“2023: The Year In Numbers” , the annual data storyteller’s New Year quiz So, if you’ve got here, you’re after the answers to the 2023 quiz, The Year In Numbers. But if you’re still working on those answers using your memory and brainpower, click here to go back to the question page now! . . […]
“2023: The Year In Numbers”
The annual data storyteller’s New Year quiz Every Christmas Eve, my family and two others gather together for a seasonal celebration. Like other families across the country, right across the world. We’re brought together by long and deep ties. Ties made of ham, egg, and chips. Of champagne, panettone, and all sorts of ice cream. […]
Why insight and analytics professionals aren’t doomed by AI
For years, many knowledge economy workers have felt a sense of unease about the prospect of artificial intelligence taking their jobs. But the threat was vague and non-specific, the realm of dystopian science fiction and not any kind of real and present danger. Then, in November last year, OpenAI made its AI chatbot, ChatGPT widely […]
The Home Secretary’s repeated data storytelling fails
There are many things one could say about Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, and her carefully-chosen words, designed to capture headlines in the more hysterical sections of the right-wing media. Many – including Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker – have drawn parallels between Braverman’s inflammatory language and that used by historical political regimes looking […]
ChatGPT – the perfect apprentice for the data storyteller
There’s a whole lot of panic going on about ChatGPT, particularly among those who write for a living. Those who write copy, those who write strategies, and those who write training courses. There’s a sudden, ice-in-the-bowels terror among purveyors of HI or Human Intelligence that OpenAI’s Generative Pre-training Transformer will soon put them out of […]
How can I improve my data storytelling?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Guest blog by Hannah Howes, Sussex Innovation Centre’s Catalyst scheme Over the past few weeks, I’ve been trying my hand at a new data storytelling app. DATAacademy is an app designed to help learners make smarter use of data. The app could be used by individuals or teams in a range of professions and […]
The megaphone solution to grab COVID headlines?
Press conferences held at Downing Street during the pandemic will provide future generations of researchers with a rich vein of evidence on which to base journal articles, dissertations, and theses.
How to be insightful
This Best Practice Guide to data storytelling originally appeared on WARC – the World Advertising Research Center database run by Ascential, the owners of the Cannes Lions. This is a link to the original article (may require subscription), written by Insight Agents’ Founder & MD, Sam Knowles, author of the 2020 book.
On black holes, blackjack, and data storytelling
When you type “Data science is the new …” into Google, although the search engine doesn’t return “rock ‘n’ roll”, its top two suggestions are “oil” and “investment banking”, two of the most desirable, profit-making enterprises in the history of advanced capitalism. In 2012, a landmark article in the Harvard Business Review dubbed data science “the sexiest job of the 21st century”.
Language of Brexit was surprisingly clear
EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION OR BROADCAST UNTIL 00:01 ON FRIDAY 31 JANUARY 2020 — Much of the language used by politicians to talk about Brexit over the past five years was simple, clear, and easy to understand. This is the conclusion of a new Insight Agents’ report analysing the language of Britain’s departure from the European […]
