Communication
A track of P14 · Data Visualization & Communication.
Turning a result into a message an audience trusts: lead with the finding, build dashboards that earn their tiles, present uncertainty honestly, and write about numbers without overclaiming.
A finding that no one acts on may as well not exist. This track is about the gap between having the right answer and getting it to change a decision — the part of data work that lives in slides, memos and dashboards rather than notebooks.
It opens with the one-slide answer: lead with the finding, not the method; pass the "so what" test; frame the same result one way for an executive (decision first) and another for a peer (method first). Then dashboards that earn their tiles — what actually deserves a tile, how alert fatigue sets in, how a dashboard decays when no one prunes it. Then presenting uncertainty honestly: intervals, fan charts, and treating "we don't know yet" as a real finding rather than a failure to hide (cross-linking the P7 forecast work). It closes on writing about numbers — making only the claims your data supports, and keeping causal language disciplined when all you have is a correlation (cross-linking P8).