Data Storytelling and Automated Reporting/Dashboarding

The skills we've learned so far are important and useful, but often we will need to communicate results to others. Without this communication, the results of our analysis aren't of much use. If the results of our work are more analytic in nature (such as descriptive statistics like standard deviation and histograms), it helps to use data storytelling techniques. Presenting information through a story makes it much more memorable than rattling off a list of statistics. For example, the memory palace technique (where numbers are put into a story) is used by world champion memorizers to remember huge series of arbitrary numbers. Additionally, several people and some studies suggest that emotions are more important than facts in decision making. So, if we are presenting results to a decision maker in our organization, it is usually more effective to tell a story with the data and results rather than simply dump a plethora...