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  • Dashboards Are Not Data Stories

    There are many options beyond dashboards for how we can display data effectively.

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  • Why We Need Less Data and More Story in the Evidence We Present

    It’s (understandably) challenging for researchers to communicate with stories + data. Here are some ideas on what we can do to help address this…

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  • Video Series: Lessons Learned in Communicating Persuasively with Data

    Here’s a series of videos on lessons learned in communicating data for impact that covers what is data storytelling; designing data presentations for face-to-face outreach; how to make data visualizations relatable to your audiences, and other topics.

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  • 10 Recommendations for Improving Data Communication about the Opioid Epidemic

    Opioid data dashboards and visualizations can potentially improve our understanding of the opioid epidemic and promote evidence-based decision making, but we need to thoughtful about how we create visualizations on opioid misuse to achieve our goals.

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  • New Course – From Spreadsheet to Story: A Guide to Communicating Health Data

    The ability to tell a story with data is more important that ever. This George Washington University continuing education class, taught by Hillcrest Advisory’s Andy Krackov, teaches participants the fundamentals of data storytelling.

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Marshaling data + storytelling to achieve results

This scenario may seem familiar:

You’ve spent months collecting and analyzing data, and you’re now ready to publish results. You want to ensure your summary is:

  • cogent and persuasive
  • visually appealing with graphs and maps
  • useful to target audiences you need to reach
  • and successful at encouraging these audiences to take actions that advance your work.

But you’ve expended so much energy on finding and summarizing results that you haven’t had time to think through how your audiences can take action from you’ll publish.

Through expertise in communicating with data + stories, Hillcrest Advisory ensures you can realize significant return on your investments in data.

In short, Hillcrest Advisory helps you activate your agenda, going from here…

To here:

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About

By focusing on translating data into easy-to-grasp answers, then communicating these findings through stories, Hillcrest Advisory enables organizations to put their issues on the public agenda; educate key constituents; inspire audiences to take a stand (e.g. join a cause or donate); and strengthen community collaboration. 

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Results

It’s relatively easy to build a data visualization that’s beautiful, but much harder to create a data story that’s useful and ensures an organization meets its goals. See how the work of Hillcrest Advisory’s founder and president, Andy Krackov, has enabled wide-ranging organizations, from foundations to government agencies to startups, activate their agenda through data. 

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