M11: Data Comms

  • “Who says I know anything?”
  • Story tell vs. make
    • Invoke senses, more than retelling the facts
    • Emphatic and expressive
    • Embellishment
    • Adapt to the audience
    • Relevance + resonance
    • Geometry of stories
  • Chip & Dan Heath
  • Florence Nightingale and John Snow + chlorea
  • Abraham Wold and Jordan Ellenberg
    • survivorship, counterfactuals, and ?
  • Colin Wood and the isolated frame doesn’t tell the full story. An N of 1 is meaningless
  • Joseph Goebells famous picture by a Jew
  • Iraq bloody death toll —> Iraq’s deaths on decline

Succes(s)

  • Simple
  • Unexpected
  • Concrete
  • Credible
  • Emotional
  • Story

What does my audience need to Know to get them to Do what

  • What does knowledge unlock?

23 Jan 1961

  • Russia and Nuke, and accidental detonation
  • Never just about the information you have…

Audience: know —> do —> & the ?s they’ll ask

  • 5Ws & H
M11: Data Comms