This is by far the best and the simplest video I have ever watched of how to communicate graphs visually. Every element in the graph was clear and explained in a way that anyone can understand. Cole you are truly amazing at how you communicate with data. Thanks for putting this content out.
Cole this is amazing, not only are you showing how to improve the graphic, but also how to tell the story when presenting it (one of my mayor pain-points) thank you!
Similar content will be in the new book-not the exact example. If you haven't already done so, you can sign up for sample content on storytellingwithyou.com. Also, stay tuned as we have some exciting videos planned around the new book! :)
Great lesson. And very impactful way of showing how storytelling works with data. They need to be shown in a couple of steps so that it resembles some kind of movie or novel plot - a journey with climaxes, ups and downs etc.
The hardest part is from 8:13. How do you connect the dots with events to tell a full story? What do I want to learn? Otherwise, it's just reading the PowerPoint.
You're right! Forming a clear narrative and articulating it to an audience takes skill. We are big fans of planning the story before creating content like graphs and slides. Doing so will help you design better graphs and determine how to animate through them. To learn more about how we do this, you might enjoy the talk on low-tech planning: th-cam.com/video/hpJ6Y2MJOUQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=6dLw88YqXEVNCmpE
Love this example. My only concern is that the shaded background area showing min-to-max is a bit tricky to achieve for many graphing packages. Not impossible, but definitely not as common as other graphing effects. With time, one can figure it out, but if you change analysis environments (and hence, graphing environments) a lot, it's time that you have to factor into the preparation of the presentation. You can, of course, migrate the data to plot from various analysis environments to a common graphing environment, with which you have the most familiarity, but that impacts agility in exploratory analysis and the time overhead again needs to be factored in. It's a great effect, though, and probably worthwhile despite the burden.
We used PPT to create the charts shown in the presentation. For a tutorial on how we animate charts in PPT check out this video: th-cam.com/video/-Ple4ZfrFlM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=t5Hphaz52H3oC5dG
Wow.. The way you converted those bars is amazing. I'm glad I found you in my early days of learning. You are really a great storyteller. By the way I am just curious to know when will be the winners for the "SWD book" giveaway will be announced? Checking the video everyday to know whether am I lucky. 😊😊
Such amazing content in only a few minutes! I use google sheets to creat a lot of my charts and I’m not seeing how to recreate what you are doing here. What tools are you using? I would love to see content around the real world chart building of these incredible lessons.
Appreciate the kudos! We primarily use Excel and PowerPoint. If helpful, we have Excel and PowerPoint playlists with our step-by-step tutorials. There will be some differences between Microsoft and Google, but the high-level process is similar.
Hi Juan - We use basic tools like Microsoft Powerpoint to animate through data. Check out this tutorial for three ways to achieve this effect in Powerpoint: th-cam.com/video/-Ple4ZfrFlM/w-d-xo.html
This is by far the best and the simplest video I have ever watched of how to communicate graphs visually. Every element in the graph was clear and explained in a way that anyone can understand. Cole you are truly amazing at how you communicate with data. Thanks for putting this content out.
Cole this is amazing, not only are you showing how to improve the graphic, but also how to tell the story when presenting it (one of my mayor pain-points) thank you!
Loved this session and it will definitely be my reference. It would be great to have more of these types of sessions. Enjoyed the q & section
Amazing! Thanks a lot for sharing this pieces of advice!
This video is so exemplary at so many levels, wow. Need to watch several times.
Appreciate the kind words, and so glad you enjoyed it!
@@storytellingwithdata will this example be included in the new book?
Similar content will be in the new book-not the exact example. If you haven't already done so, you can sign up for sample content on storytellingwithyou.com. Also, stay tuned as we have some exciting videos planned around the new book! :)
@@storytellingwithdata thank you Team! just watched this again.
Thank you for such a concise and well-written example. Love your content!
Great lesson. And very impactful way of showing how storytelling works with data. They need to be shown in a couple of steps so that it resembles some kind of movie or novel plot - a journey with climaxes, ups and downs etc.
Great tips! You are wonderful, Cole! I'm a huge fan from Brazil 😀
The hardest part is from 8:13. How do you connect the dots with events to tell a full story? What do I want to learn? Otherwise, it's just reading the PowerPoint.
You're right! Forming a clear narrative and articulating it to an audience takes skill. We are big fans of planning the story before creating content like graphs and slides. Doing so will help you design better graphs and determine how to animate through them. To learn more about how we do this, you might enjoy the talk on low-tech planning: th-cam.com/video/hpJ6Y2MJOUQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=6dLw88YqXEVNCmpE
This is amazing!😊
Perfect! Thank you!
Amazing, great tips 😊
Love this example. My only concern is that the shaded background area showing min-to-max is a bit tricky to achieve for many graphing packages. Not impossible, but definitely not as common as other graphing effects. With time, one can figure it out, but if you change analysis environments (and hence, graphing environments) a lot, it's time that you have to factor into the preparation of the presentation. You can, of course, migrate the data to plot from various analysis environments to a common graphing environment, with which you have the most familiarity, but that impacts agility in exploratory analysis and the time overhead again needs to be factored in. It's a great effect, though, and probably worthwhile despite the burden.
All great points, Andrew! The shaded region is tedious to add but for a high-stakes communication, it might be worth the additional effort.
Powerful presentation in the shortest amount of time... Which tool did you use to both create graphs and to animate those?
We used PPT to create the charts shown in the presentation. For a tutorial on how we animate charts in PPT check out this video: th-cam.com/video/-Ple4ZfrFlM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=t5Hphaz52H3oC5dG
Wow.. The way you converted those bars is amazing. I'm glad I found you in my early days of learning. You are really a great storyteller.
By the way I am just curious to know when will be the winners for the "SWD book" giveaway will be announced? Checking the video everyday to know whether am I lucky. 😊😊
Glad you enjoyed the presentation! We will announce winners soon and reach out directly, so stay tuned!
Such amazing content in only a few minutes! I use google sheets to creat a lot of my charts and I’m not seeing how to recreate what you are doing here. What tools are you using? I would love to see content around the real world chart building of these incredible lessons.
Appreciate the kudos! We primarily use Excel and PowerPoint. If helpful, we have Excel and PowerPoint playlists with our step-by-step tutorials. There will be some differences between Microsoft and Google, but the high-level process is similar.
Would be nice to know how you made min and max (the range) in Excel into that gray area instead of lines at 5:18
Check out this short to learn how to create a shaded region in Excel. Avoid busy spaghetti graphs
th-cam.com/users/shortss2ykMRDH2-c?feature=share
@@storytellingwithdata Thanks a lot🙏
muito bom teacher! ;)
Love love this !!!!
Hello! :)
What tool did you use in animating the chart?
Hi Juan - We use basic tools like Microsoft Powerpoint to animate through data. Check out this tutorial for three ways to achieve this effect in Powerpoint: th-cam.com/video/-Ple4ZfrFlM/w-d-xo.html
Lovely but how to do this in a Google sheets setup where things are dynamic and the interpretation might change
Thank you