Master Data Storytelling: Essential Skills for Aspiring Data Analysts 📊

MENTORSHIP - Applications for the Winter 2025 mentorship cohort are now open! Apply here → https://theanalyticsaccelerator.com/ 🎬 We’re looking for a video editor! → https://bit.ly/46gfaJP If you (or someone you know) loves editing long-form educational YouTube content and want to work with me on videos that make a real impact, I’d love to hear from you! ABOUT THIS VIDEO Most analysts can make a chart. But making someone *care* about what that chart says? That’s the real flex. In this video, we cover how to turn “just a graph” into a story that clicks with hiring managers, teammates, and stakeholders. • A Tableau demo where I dig into business-relevant data and uncover the actual story behind the numbers • Standout examples of data storytelling from my students • Industry Do's and Don'ts of data storytelling (including why pie charts get you silently judged) If your dashboards are saying too much - or nothing at all - this one’s for you. ABOUT ME If we haven’t met yet - hi! I’m Christine, a former data director and hiring manager helping ambitious career transitioners and recent grads land their first job as a data analyst. I'll be sharing the insights and strategies that empowered over 70% of job-hunting students in the first cohort of my mentorship program landed their first data job within 6 months, in today's super-competitive job market. If you want to become a standout data analyst through applied business skills, soft skills, and strategies for every part of the job hunt process - so that you can have confidence, professional leverage, and bring real impact to work - connect below for more insights and future workshops! LINKS - Get more tips in my newsletter - https://bit.ly/3LodfYs - Apply to the next cohort - https://theanalyticsaccelerator.com/ - Follow on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/christine-jiang - Instagram - https://instagram.com/cjiaang (my photography, because why not) Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:55 - Data Visualization vs. Data Storytelling 1:46 - Data Storytelling Demo 6:35 - Standout Student Examples 7:37 - Guidelines for Picking Visualizations 9:36 Storytelling Do's and Don'ts Video URL: