Communicating Through Data Visualization
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Communicating ThroughData Visualization
Paul Carr, TruMedia Networks | @PaulCarr | #OptaProSoccer
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About Me
• TruMedia Networks: Director of Client
Support & Content Development
• ESPN: 10 years as Senior Researcher,
specializing in soccer
• TV/radio/newspaper: play-by-play,
sports talk radio, game write-ups
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Skills Common to These Jobs (and Yours!)
• Explaining things quickly & succinctly
• Filtering quality information from
large quantities of data
• Making numbers and data digestible
for non-quantitative types
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Communicating Through
Data Visualization
• Keep it simple
• Speak the language
• Tell a story
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Keep It Simple
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Keep It Simple
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• Analysts are like human
Big Number templates
• Good for coach to get same info
before/after a game
• Also good to highlight the best info
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Keep It Simple
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• Simplify graphics
• Make them intuitive
• Focus on the most important things in
easy-to-understand ways
Keep It Simple
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Speak The Language
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• Literally if necessary
• Learn the terminology
• Frame stats differently
Speak The Language
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Speak The Language
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Speak The Language
U.S. struggles vs Italy
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• Don’t come in throwing bombs
• Talk about what they like
• Support what they know
• Slowly pull them to the dark side
Speak The Language
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• Using stats and visuals, tell the
story of a player or game or season
• Do it in 5-10 seconds
• The person you’re talking to
has to tell the story to others
Tell a Story
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Tell A Story
2013 UEFA Champions League – Round of 16, 1st Leg
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Tell A Story
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• Be succinct
• Make the stories actionable
• With the right visual and story,
numbers are almost irrelevant
Tell a Story
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Communicating through Data Visualization
• Keep it simple
• Speak the language
• Tell a story