TELLING STORIES WITH DATA

Jerome Cukier, OECD

Hi, I’m Jerome Cukier

I work at OECD, an international

agency which creates a lot of data.(economics, society, environment…)

oecd.org/statistics/factblog

I publish a blog where I

tell stories with data

form

data story

1. form

2. data 3. story

3. form

2. data 1. story

Start with

the story

Find theme

Find message

Get data

Select data

Decide on representation

Create visualization

(also, write story)

Publish, evaluate

story

data

form

story

What is a story?

What is not a story

Commentary on

new data.Anecdotes.

Technical

informationSelf-promotion.

What is a story?

Simple. Interesting. Relevant.

What is a story?

A theme A message

Climate change We can stop global warming today

for 11 cents per person per day.

Improving health A baby born today will live 6 hours

more than a baby born yesterday.

China, growing

too fast?

China of 200 years ago was much,

much more powerful.

Getting data, selecting data

(only what I need to make my point.)

(This is a schema of the model OECD

uses to forecast greenhouse gas

emissions)

(20 datapoints)

Representation

Push vs. pullhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/sashafatcat/434076445/sizes/o/

Light interaction

http://www.flickr.com/photos/19624454@N00/79776049/

Data!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/clover_1/4852343792/

Publication

Success ?