7 tips for better data-driven stories

Numbers stories can be intimidating for those of us without a background in
statistics or mathematics.
Yet we lowly English majors, along with people trained in journalism and
communication, do have one advantage over the number-crunchers: We know how
to tell stories.
The question is how to use data in a meaningful way that advances your
narrative.
“If you don't know why your sharing a piece of data or what it means in the
larger scheme of the argument you are trying to make, it's not ver