Numbers to Narrative

Telling stories with Data

 

Dhrumil Mehta

Database Journalist, Politics - FiveThirtyEight

Democracy and Technology Fellow - Ash Center @ HKS

 

dhrumil.mehta@fivethirtyeight.com  

 @datadhrumil

@dmil

Types of Data Stories

Huge Data Dump

  • Uber
  • Election Results
  • Census

Answer a question with data

Support/Oppose a hypothesis

Identify a Phenomenon

Debunk or Justify Conventional Wisdom

Data-Driven Profile

Lack of Data

Data driven investigative work

Dig for Data

Provide relevant context

Build our own dataset

  • With Code / Scrapers
  • By Hand
  • By Survey Tool

Explain Calculations

Use Innovative Methodology

Use data to inform traditional reporting

The Rare Datapoint

 

dhrumil.mehta@fivethirtyeight.com  

 @datadhrumil

@dmil 

 

http://fivethirtyeight.com/contributors/dhrumil-mehta/​

Types of Data Stories

By Dhrumil Mehta

Types of Data Stories

Telling stories with data.

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