story telling acc 430

Overview

This is a Bongo Learn practice assignment that allows you to practice creating a data story. You will benefit from getting both the automated and instructor feedback prior to producing your final project.

Directions

This assignment allows you to set up a data story presentation for a non-technical audience. Watch the video, Telling Stories with Data in 3 Steps (Quick Study), found in the Supporting Materials section to learn about the arc of a data story. Research and locate a data visualization or pull from your collection of screenshots to tell a data story. Keep it simple and direct. The purpose of this assignment is to practice presentation skills for a given audience.

Hint: You just finished doing labs on the balanced scorecard and KPIs. Either of these screenshots could be used to create an engaging data story.

• Use the slide deck template provided in the What to Submit section.
• Use the PowerPoint template provided to write your speaker notes. The speaker notes will become your script for narrating your data story.
• Using Bongo Learn, record your story.
  • It is recommended that you try recording several times to feel comfortable with your pace, volume, and diction.
  • Bongo Learn provides automated feedback about your presentation skills. While this assignment is focused on data storytelling, the content should be simple and direct. Your objective is to gain the confidence you need to present orally and visually to a non-technical audience. This requires understanding of what a non-technical audience requires and an ability to simplify images and eliminate professional jargon that might confuse audience members or cause them to lose interest.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1. Create a data story using the template provided in the What to Submit section.
   1. Add images to engage the audience.
   2. Add titles and text to get audience attention.
   3. Add text through bulleted items. Include no more than 8 bullets per slide.
2. Prepare speaker notes that tell the data story.
   1. Clearly articulate the setup, conflict, and resolution in your data story.
3. Record narration using Bongo.
   1. Use a clearly articulated and well-paced delivery.
   2. Use the speaker notes section for your script when recording the presentation to tell your data story.
4. Explain how you would modify this presentation for a technical audience.
   1. Include 3–5 specific examples of changes to verbiage.
   2. Include 3–5 specific examples of changes to images you would make for a technical audience.
   3. Add this information to the slide deck.
   4. Record recommended changes for a technical audience at the end of your presentation and include them in your non-technical presentation

What to Submit

You will be submitting three items:

• A finished PowerPoint presentation using the Module Five Assignment Template. Include the feedback screenshot from Bongo Learn.
• A PDF file of your speaker notes

Supporting Materials

The following resources support your work on the assignment:

Video: Telling Stories with Data in 3 Steps (Quick Study) This video describes the arc of a data story.

Website: Data Storytelling: Effective and Not So Effective Examples Use this site to learn more about creating effective data stories by studying some ineffective examples.