Death to Pie Charts! ...and other lessons in storytelling with data

Special Guest Speaker! Cole Nussbaumer (storytellingwithdata.com (http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/)) is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer of data visualization, and recently worked at Google as their People Analytics Manager. She will be holding a data visualization workshop in Dallas, and has agreed to present her talk, Death to Pie Charts, while she is in Dallas. This will be an extra event for the DFWDataViz group during May.

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Workshop Discount! DFW DataViz members interested in attending her workshop on May 5th can use this custom link (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=G4QDE26HLATGE) to get 10% OFF the registration price! Learn more about the workshop here (http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/p/public-workshops.html).

Location: This meeting will be held at the SMU Plano campus. Space at this location is limited, so please RSVP so we can move if necessary! Click this link to download the SMU Plano map PDF (https://www.dropbox.com/s/94q4se7s46ba1ok/SMU%20Plano%20Map%20with%20our%20address_v2.pdf?dl=0).

6:30pm - Doors Open and Networking

6:50pm - Announcements

7:00pm - Death to Pie Charts by Cole Nussbaumer

7:50pm - Q&A and Open discussion

NEW: John Colaruotolo from Collective Next (http://www.collectivenext.com/) will be live graphically recording the event Monday night!

Death to Pie Charts! ...and other lessons in storytelling with data

It’s surprisingly easy to make a confusing graph. No one sets out with that purpose, but it happens frequently—across all industries and by all sorts of well-intending people.

One way to position yourself for success in data visualization and communicating with data is to never simply show data, but rather to tell a story with data. Being able to tell stories with data is a critical skill in our world of ever increasing data and desire for data-driven decision making. An effective data story can mean the difference between success and failure when it comes to communicating the findings of your study, raising money for your non-profit, presenting to your board, or simply getting your point across to your audience.

About the speaker:

Cole Nussbaumer tells stories with data. She teaches others how to do it, too. Come see a condensed overview of the lessons Cole covers in her popular storytelling with data workshops for organizations like Adobe, Genentech, MasterCard, Target, the World Bank, and Google. You’ll leave the session inspired and armed with some practical lessons that will set you up for success for telling your stories with data.

Note: Cole will be conducting a 3-hour workshop in Dallas on 5/5 from 9am-noon; details can be found here (http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/p/public-workshops.html). Register via this link (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=G4QDE26HLATGE) for a special 10% discounted rate.

Interested in learning more? Check out www.storytellingwithdata.com (http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/) and follow Cole on Twitter @storywithdata (https://twitter.com/storywithdata).

John Colaruotolo is a seasoned graphic facilitator and workshop facilitator of 15 years, visually synthesizing complex conversations for organizations around the world. Originally working with the Accelerated Solutions Environment at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, John honed his craft from a broad network of international facilitators and graphic facilitators. As a scribe, John visually captures large-group discussions, presentations, and panel discussions using words, pictures, models, and connections. Currently he works with Collective Next, where he uses graphic facilitation as a medium for creating common mental models for participants of group dialogues.

As a workshop facilitator, he designs and facilitates large-scale collaborative work sessions and learning experiences, helping inspire organizations to think creatively and to move forward. The clients that John has the opportunity to work with run the gamut: healthcare, financial services, non-profit, retail, government, big oil, big pharma, movie stars, rock stars, as well as TED and TEDx Conferences.

You can follow John @johncolaruotolo and his company @collectivenext