The Most Overlooked Skill for Data Professionals

This article was co-authored by Lindsay Murphy. As data professionals, we often find ourselves immersed in a world of technical skills, focusing on programming languages, statistical analysis, and machine learning algorithms. In an industry that is expanding rapidly, it seems like there are always new and exciting technical skills to learn. While these skills are …

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How to Speak Like a Storyteller Using the ABT Framework

One of the most sought-after skills in business communication is storytelling. Today, let’s break it down into 3 easy steps.   First, what not to do:    “We have a revolutionary pain-relieving product. And progress has been a bit slow. And we need additional funding to accelerate our efforts” This kind of structure is probably what you frequently hear in the workplace.  …

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Tables: 3 Steps To Make them Better Visualizations

Text-heavy slides are attention-snappers. They instantly reduce attention to zero. Because audiences stop listening to you and start reading the screen. Philippa Leguen de Lacroix put it very well in her LinkedIn article: For every person, reading is like listening to a voice inside your head reading out-loud…[When] listening to themselves read, your audience will struggle …

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The One Time Pie Charts are the Best Graphical Choice

Data professionals have very strong opinions about pie charts. In fact, The Hidden Speaker has its own article explaining all the reasons why they make a poor choice of visualization. However, despite all that intense criticism, pie charts have still managed to become firmly entrenched in our presentation vocabulary. So the game-changing question is: when …

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