INTRO TO STORY TELLING

Question 1

What is the need of story telling?

Answer 1

Storytelling has been used as a medium to pass on knowledge,
experience, and information since ages. It also builds intercultural
understanding and commonalities thereof.

Question 2

Storytelling:
Communication across
the ages

Answer 2

• Stories have proved to be the most effective way of
  communication since time immemorial.
• It’s the mode of communication our brains biologically
  prefer.
• When a good story is told the brain comes alive because
  storytelling literally has a chemical effect on the brain that
  wakes it up in order to absorb, digest and store information.
• Stories have the power to inspire, motivate, and change
  people’s opinions. In short stories are the best possible way
  to deliver complex information (data)

Question 3

Definition of Storytelling

Answer 3

Storytelling is defined as the art of narrating
stories to engage an audience.

Question 4

why storytelling is so powerful and cross-cultural,
and what this means for data storytelling

Answer 4

• A well-told story is an inspirational narrative that is crafted to engage the
  audience across boundaries and cultures, as they have the impact that isn’t
  possible with data alone.
• Data can be persuasive, but stories are much more. They change the way that we
  interact with data, transforming it from a dry collection of “facts” to something
  that can be entertaining, engaging, thought provoking, and inspiring change.
• Each data point holds some information which maybe unclear and contextually
  deficient on its own. Therefore, when told in the form of a narrative, it reduces
  ambiguity, connects data with context, and describes a specific interpretation –
  communicating the important messages in most effective ways

Question 5

The steps involved in
telling an effective data
story are given below:

Answer 5

1)Understanding the audience
2) Choosing the right data and
visualisations
3)Drawing attention to key
information
4)Developing a narrative
5)Engaging your audience

Question 6

What are the three forms of storytelling?

Answer 6

Visual, Oral and Written

Question 7

What skills do storytelling help develop?

Answer 7

Imagination, inventiveness, creativity and articulation.

Question 8

What is data storytelling?

Answer 8

Data storytelling is a structured approach for communicating insights
drawn from data, and invariably involves a combination of three key
elements: data, visuals, and narrative.

Question 9

Some easy steps that can assist in finding
compelling stories in the data sets are as follows:

Answer 9

• Step 1: Get the data and organise it.
• Step 2: Visualize the data.
• Step 3: Examine data relationships.
• Step 4: Create a simple narrative embedded with conflict.

Question 10

Explore and explain how storytelling connects people?

Answer 10

Stories create engaging experiences that transport the audience to another
space and time. They establish a sense of community belongingness and
identity. For these reasons, storytelling is considered a powerful element that
enhances global networking by increasing the awareness about the cultural
differences and enhancing cross-cultural understanding.

Question 11

Data storytelling has acquired a place of
importance because:

Answer 11

• It is an effective tool to transmit human experience. Narrative is the way we simplify and make sense of a complex
  world.
• No matter how impressive an analysis, or how high-quality the data, it is not going to compel change unless the
  people involved understand what is explained through a story.
• Stories that incorporate data and analytics are more convincing than those based entirely on anecdotes or personal
  experience.
• It helps to standardize communications and spread results.

Question 12

Presenting the data as a series of disjointed charts and graphs could
result in the audience struggling to understand it. Justify?

Answer 12

)Presenting the data as a series of disjointed charts and graphs
could result in the audience struggling to understand it – or worse,
come to the wrong conclusions entirely. Thus, the importance of a
narrative comes from the fact that it explains what is going on within
the data set. It offers a context and meaning, relevance and clarity

Question 13

Narrative is the way we simplify and ________

Answer 13

Make sense of a complex world

Question 14

Data storytelling make information memorable and ____

Answer 14

Easier to retain

Question 15

When visuals are applied to data, they provide _________ to
audience

Answer 15

Insight

Question 16

What is a conflict?

Answer 16

Conflict in a story is a struggle between
two or more opposing forces. Conflict in a
story drives the plot forward towards a
resolution.

Question 17

What is Data storytelling, conflict and resolution?

Answer 17

)In a business or our daily life, the users or audience are trying to
resolve a conflict always. All decisions have to be made after resolving the
conflict. Every question answered in data storytelling is by the means of
finding evidence to a conflict.

Question 18

SKILLS THAT RESOLVE CONFLICT IN A DATA STORYTELLING:

Answer 18

• 1. Communication
• 2. Teamwork
• 3. Problem Solving
• 4. Stress management
• 5. Emotional agility

Question 19

The seven pointers to become an engaging storyteller are:

Answer 19

1. Engross the audience in your story
2. Link up with your personal story
3. Create suspense till end
4. Bring characters to life
5. Show, don’t tell
6. Build up a peek moment
7. Climax should have a positive takeaway

Question 20

6 Elements of
Story Telling

Answer 20

1. Character-who populates the story
2. Plot-what takes place in the story
3. Setting-where the story takes place
4. Point of view-participation of narrator and audience
5. Style-skills attained for storytelling
6. Literacy devices-knowledge of technology