The document announces a data storytelling workshop on January 23rd 2018 to be led by Elena Simperl. The workshop will explore how to make data more engaging for people by helping them tell their own data stories, and examine what types of data stories people share and why. It will also discuss how people find and make sense of data, whether games can help familiarize people with data, and when data goes viral. The workshop leader Elena Simperl is affiliated with the University of Southampton's interdisciplinary Web Science lab.

1. Data Storytelling Workshop
Engaging with data in a post-truth world
January 23rd 2018 Elena Simperl

2. “Data is infrastructure. It underpins transparency,
accountability, public services, business
innovation and civil society.”

5. How do we make data more engaging?
How do we help people tell their data stories?
What data stories do people share and why?

6. Interdisciplinary lab, 120+ members, 25+
academic staff
Founding member of the Web Science Trust
Founding partner of the ODI
Developer of ePrints
W3C office for UK and Ireland
Web and Internet Science @ Southampton

8. How do people find and make sense of
data?

9. Alexa, what’s our discount levels on
those sales?

10. Can games help people get familiar
with data?

11. When does data go viral?

12. e.simperl@soton.ac.uk
@esimperl
#datastories2018