Data Storytelling

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Programme CodeD147A
Domain
Data Engineering
Level
Foundation
Learning Partner(s)
NUS-ISS
Duration
3 Days
FormatIn-person
Rating
Job Roles
ICT&SS Professional

Overview

Refine your data storytelling skills for impactful communication in the corporate environment. Data Storytelling has become an extremely important skill in today's corporate environment. It is effective way to share organisation information and drive outcomes. The rate that businesses collect data today is phenomenal. Therefore, data storytelling is important for professionals to communicate findings, tailored to a specific audience, with a compelling narrative.

The programme equips you with essential skills to draw insights from data, deploy story boards and present their insights using the most effective visual representations. Skills learnt in this programme would help place the organisation on the path towards data driven decision making.

Our instructors who possess a wealth of industry experience will use real life examples and hands on workshops to help you apply descriptive and diagnostic techniques, select appropriate charts and graphs, create powerful presentations; design productive dashboards and create viral infographics.

Key Takeaways

At the end of this programme, you will be able to:

  • Apply various types of data-related questions and analytics patterns to extract meaningful insights
  • Apply exploratory, descriptive and diagnostic analysis to uncover patterns
  • Deconstruct principles of effective data visualisation
  • Learn the art of designing dashboards for achieving business outcomes
  • Utilise storytelling framework and GenAI tools to create narratives that effectively present the data story

Who Should Attend

  • Please refer to the job roles section.
  • Please note that this is NOT a substitute for a tool training programme. However, we may use Excel, Tableau or Power BI in the programme to illustrate the application for the best practices in data visualisation and data storytelling.

Prerequisites

  • Basic Excel and PowerPoint skills are assumed.
  • If you have limited knowledge of the above, you may consider acquiring them via GCF Learn for Excel PowerPoint.

What To Bring

You must bring your internet-enabled computing devices (laptops, tablet etc) with power chargers to access and download programme materials. No printed copies of programme materials are issued. Please refer to the full tech specifications here.

Testimonials

I learnt about the basic principles of data storytelling and creating infographics.

I now have a deeper understanding of the appropriate uses of different types of data, visuals and infographics to suit different types of audiences. 

Learning about the best practices in performing data visualisation & data storytelling was useful for me.