Communicating Data Effectively
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What’s Included
Overview of Data Communication
Overview of Data Communication
Communicating data effectively is an important business skill. In this lesson, we'll learn what we mean by data communication and why it's important.
Generating Insights from Data
Generating Insights from Data
In business, you don't want to communicate data itself, instead you want to communicate insights you obtain from that data. We'll review how you can obtain these insights in this lesson.
Identifying your Audience
Identifying your Audience
There are several factors that need to be considered in order to communicate your data insights effectively. In this lesson, we'll look at the first of these by considering the importance of understanding the audience you are communicating with.
Finding the Right Data
Finding the Right Data
Many people have a limited understanding of data, so effective communication requires you to know what data is important and what data isn't. In this lesson, you'll learn how to identify the relevant data to you.
Generating Metrics
Generating Metrics
Metrics are the key to communicating data in a way that is practical and relevant to business. In this lesson, you'll learn what characteristics make metrics useful and effective for your communications.
The Importance of Narrative
The Importance of Narrative
One of the most effective ways of communicating data is to create a story and a narrative around the points you want to make. In this lesson, we'll discuss how this can benefit you, and briefly consider how to create a data story.
Using the Pyramid Principle
Using the Pyramid Principle
The pyramid principle helps you present a particular point or argument in a way that ensures people will pay attention. In this lesson, we'll introduce the principle and learn why it is effective.
Making MECE Arguments
Making MECE Arguments
The main challenge with the pyramid principle is identifying arguments that are mutually exclusive and collective exhaustive, or MECE for short. In this lesson, we'll introduce the MECE framework and learn why it can be difficult to implement.
A MECE Example
A MECE Example
Identifying MECE issues becomes more challenging when you analyze larger and more complex problems. In this lesson, we'll learn about these challenges by creating a MECE issue tree for our course case study.
