July 25, 2014
Storytelling with data: genre and shared language
A talk from this year’s Tapestry conference, taking the idea of storytelling with data seriously by looking at genre
Genres create a shared language, but they can also become formulaic.
Here’s one example to get you going: what do love stories have to do with taxi maps?
(via Alberto Cairo)
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »