Finding, Showing & Telling the Stories in Data That Inspire Change

Numbers are not enough to move the head and heart of people. Would-be analysts also need to find, show and tell compelling stories, case studies and visualizations that put patterns and trends into context that inspire changing a predicted outcome. In this presentation, we’ll learn how “finding data” (especially positive outliers) informs the plot of a short story about a seventh-grade girl’s surprising use of Khan Academy to graduate 2nd in her class, see what high school students’ time-on-task looks like in an LMS “waterfall” visualization, and explore how “storyboarding” informs “choice architecture” to nudge people into making better choices than they otherwise might.

Speakers:
John Fritz (Speaker) University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Associate Vice President for Instructional Technology