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Expert data storytelling by Dr. Selena Fisk offers insights, resources, and training to help organizations and schools become evidence-informed decision-makers.
A lot of people assume data storytelling is a "school thing" or a "business thing", as if the two worlds don't overlap. In my experience, they overlap constantly. Corporate data storytelling and school-based data litera…
I've sat in more than one meeting in Sydney, in Melbourne and on Zoom calls with regional teams where someone pulled up a dashboard with forty different metrics on it, scrolled through all of them, and then said, "So...…
Excel can calculate a percentage in seconds. It can sort thousands of rows and turn them into a chart before you have finished your coffee.What it cannot do is tell you what those numbers actually mean for your business…
Good data storytelling training sits at the intersection of three disciplines: rigors analysis, thoughtful visual design, and narrative craft. It isn't purely a design workshop, and it isn't a statistics class. It's the…
At its core, data storytelling is the practice of combining data, visuals, and narrative to communicate insights in a way people actually remember and act on. It’s not just about making a chart look nice. It’s about ans…
Walk into any staffroom in Australia and you'll find spreadsheets. Attendance figures, NAPLAN results, wellbeing surveys and assessment data, schools are drowning in numbers. And yet, in my experience working with schoo…
The landscape of corporate conferences has shifted. Attendees are no longer willing to sit through hour-long presentations filled with cluttered dashboards and endless spreadsheets. Modern professionals expect practical…
Modern professionals expect practical insights they can understand instantly and apply to their daily work the moment they return to the office. Because organisations collect more information than ever before, the chall…
I still remember sitting in a school leadership meeting years ago, watching a principal scroll through eleven tabs of spreadsheets, trying to explain enrollment trends to a room full of glazed eyes. Nobody was confused …
I’ve sat through more bad data presentations than I can count. Slide after slide of numbers, a presenter reading straight off the chart, and a room quietly checking their phones. Then, every so often, someone stands up …
In the business landscape, organizations are flooded with more information than ever before. Yet, many executive teams find themselves “data rich but insight poor.” The challenge lies not in gathering data, but in trans…
