Visual Storytelling with Data

Our team digs deep into the data (whether that be climate trends or internal process data) and create a range of visual products that turn complexity into clarity.

Long-Term Value

Visual storytelling with data means unearthing a compelling story (or set of stories) in a mixed quantitative and qualitative data set. Philanthropies are sitting on treasure troves of unused data that are rich with stories.

When we work together to ask burning questions of the data we have and bring stories to life visually and in invigorating ways, our clients see persistent problems or opportunities more clearly which leads to seismic shifts in thinking and practice.

While many philanthropies hire external consultants to create visual storytelling products that get used once or twice despite heavy investment, we work with your team to co-(collectively) create processes and products that you will continue to use for many years after our engagement. Even more, we bring the latest innovations in visual storytelling with data to bear that tap into all of your senses and actually work for your team.

Details

The visual storytelling with data category of our offerings encompasses a wide range of related services.

Sub-Services

  • Turn the feeling of overwhelm into confidence and clarity through a complex idea breakdown session. Bring your thoughts and ideas - no matter how disorganized you feel they are - and we will work together to put them into a clear structure that you can use to guide your own thinking and communication with peers and partners.

  • Have you commissioned a rigorous evaluation or research project and are now tasked with translating the “so what” of the study for various audiences? Turn furrowed eyebrows and confused expressions into engagement and excitement around your research through creative research translation techniques.

  • When you’re working on complex projects, it’s important that your team sees how their work contributes to the bigger picture for satisfaction and alignment. But that’s often difficult with rudimentary project management software available that prevents you from easily seeing how the pieces connect. Work with us to adopt creative approaches to visualize your work plan so that your team stays aligned, on task, and motivated by the broader vision.

  • Increase engagement and utilization of data and insights through pithy and purpose-driven visual reports designed with and for key audiences.

  • Delight and inform your audiences with a well-designed data story deck. Spark dialogue, discussion and even debate with eloquent charts, visualizations, and key takeaways designed specifically for your audience and purpose.

  • Do you have too much data but hear and feel constantly that it needs to be simplified to be used? Let us pour through your data in its various forms to offer a streamlined and simplified process for collecting, cleaning, analyzing and visualizing to help you make the most of what you’ve got.

  • Increase your understanding of partner journeys with your organization from grant acquisition to relationship evolution. Apply this methodology to understanding the layered experience of the key actors you work with regularly, even your fellow colleagues.

  • Turn your static charts into interactive, automated dashboards that guide your reporting and decision-making. Start with prototyping and testing the static product and build capacity alongside the tool from the ground up. Create a product and process in tandem that your team uses for years to come.

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