Data Stories with Isabel Becker

Welcome to Data Stories with Isabel Becker, the podcast about why data is the latest innovation in storytelling - and why you should know about it.

Each episode, I’ll be talking to a new guest about what data stories are, the place of data stories in culture and society today, and why they have the potential to change the world around us.

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Episodes

The Power of Story with Rain Bennett

Rain Bennett is a two-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker, writer, podcaster, speaker and all-round ‘competitive storyteller’ who helps people tell better stories, so they can do better work and make a better world.    “In 2012”, he writes, “I set out with a camera and a backpack to travel the world and tell the story of an underground fitness movement…No one had heard of me…I had no crew, cheap equipment, and no budget. But I traveled to over 15 countries, building relationships and focusin...

Jun 09, 2023•44 min

Data Products & The Future of Digital Experiences with Chris Onowu

Chris Onowu, Global Head of Data Product at Kubrick Group, is a highly skilled hybrid Product Development leader with over 15 years of industry experience. He has a bachelor's degree in Statistics and Economics, expertise in product development, product leadership, business analysis and change management, and is a doctoral candidate in Business Administration, with research interests in Balanced Scorecards.  Before joining Kubrick in 2019 to build the Data Product strategic business unit, h...

Mar 03, 2023•39 min

Data Theatre & How To Create Authentic Data Experiences with Professor Rahul Bhargava

Rahul Bhargava, Assistant Professor at Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media & Design in Boston, Massachusetts, is an educator, researcher, designer, and facilitator who builds collaborative projects to interrogate our datafied society with a focus on rethinking participation and power in data processes. He has created big data research tools to investigate media attention, built hands-on interactive museum exhibits that delight learners of all ages, and run over 100 workshops to ...

Jan 16, 2023•46 min

Data, Linguistics & AI Ethics with Sarah Schlobohm

Sarah Schlobohm is shaping the careers of graduates entering the data industry - and making Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics top of the agenda. As Head of AI at Kubrick Group, a London-based data consultancy rapidly growing in the UK and US, Sarah couples teaching how to programme artificial intelligence with an emphasis on thinking critically about the ethical and regulatory challenges that this same technology brings. Struggling to choose between specialising in Linguistics or Physics after...

Nov 08, 2022•32 min

Fact & Fiction: Why Data Insights Mirrors Literary Analysis with Rob Burgess

At first glance, you might think of literary analysis and data analysis to be worlds apart. The former looks at how narratological devices like character, plot and language create meaningful messages to audiences, and exists in the realm of fiction. The latter is about drawing knowledge from what has happened in the ‘real’ world, and therefore what is ‘fact’. But what is the difference between fact and fiction, if not just two foundations for storytelling? Rob Burgess is a Data Visualisation Des...

Aug 31, 2022•33 min

Data Communication with Andy Cotgreave

Andy Cotgreave is an author, content host and Technical Evangelist at Tableau, a data visualisation software company. Embarking on a career as an illustrator before switching to a Geography degree last minute, Andy then discovered Computer Science and has since worked in the multi-faceted field of data insights. Now a renowned expert in ‘helping people to see and understand data’, representing Tableau at global conferences and in the press, Andy teaches people across the world how to present dat...

Jul 20, 2022•53 min

Data Collaboration with Paul Winsor

Retailers have got to manage a lot of data exploding out of every area of the business - products, suppliers, online traffic, customers - which can be both a blessing and a curse. How do you manage such huge volumes of data in a safe and secure way, and, what’s more, get something out of it? Snowflake’s Data Cloud helps retailers like John Lewis do clever things with their data. We discuss why ‘data collaboration’ will be the next big thing for companies wanting to distinguish themselves, questi...

Jun 15, 2022•46 min

Welcome to Data Stories

Introducing Data Stories with Isabel Becker , the podcast that explores the relationship between data and narrative storytelling, to understand how data can spark the imaginations in us all, and how we can all learn the language of data stories. Experimenting with ideas from across business, the creative arts and education, Data Stories is the place for you to expand your boundaries and think differently about how we can bring data to life, for everyone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

Jun 15, 2022•2 min