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100			_aVora, Sejal
245			_aPower of data story telling / _cSejal Vora
260			_aIndia _bSage Publications _c2019
300			_a218 p.
365			_aINR _b495.00
500			_aThe Power of Data Storytelling is a book that aims to solve the classic dilemma of—How do I make company data interesting and present it in the form of a great data story for today’s time-crunched professionals. The book focuses on various methods of converting dry facts and figures into interesting characters, events and relaying them in the form of a story to enable company’s decision-making. The book covers all data story related aspects—art of storytelling, building, writing and visualizing. The book reflects practical corporate examples from varied fields and how data storytelling enabled the decision-making process. It does not require knowledge of sophisticated tools and introduces new, simple and application-oriented methods at every stage to take data storytelling forward. The book has wide application across industries and organizations with data sets that are big and small. It has explanatory written and visual examples at every discussion which makes it less theoretical and more practically applicable. Excerpt Today, as corporates sit on huge data resources, the need to use this data is only becoming bigger. Data Storytelling is not just the need of the hour but is also considered as a sought-after skill in the present scenario. Google’s Chief Economist Dr Hal R. Varian had stated, “The ability to take data – to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it – that’s going to be hugely important skill in the next decades.
650			_aDigital storytelling
650			_aInformation visualization