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data storytelling

/ˈdeɪ.tə ˈstɔːr.i.tɛl.ɪŋ/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The discipline of making a number persuasive before it is correct.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The practice of framing analysis as a narrative so an audience can follow the finding and its implication.

Filed

See also

actionable insightTerm struck pending the definitions of action, owner, and decision right it claims to carry; absent those, the insight is observed but not actionable.
data literacyThe training program assigned to readers to explain why the numbers never matched.
vanity metricA number that goes up to make a slide feel better and a quarter look busier.