Data Storytelling Bootcamp bestowed a flood of insights and stories

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Gramener’s first data storytelling bootcamp in January this year piqued everyone’s interest😊. It made our members analyze data and present insights in the form of memorable stories. So, we thought why not make it a tradition? Why not organize it every quarter? 🤔

So, we did. Last Friday, 3rd May 2019, we organized a day-long Data storytelling Bootcamp. Each team had the freedom to choose a dataset and explore insights. Then, they had to present their findings with stories. The best part was the amalgamation of minds from various fields.

Everyone offered the best of their ideas turned into data stories.

Data Storytelling examples from bootcamp training session

Storytelling with data gives insights a comprehensive way to communicate with humans. In our all-day data storytelling training session, Gramener members were able to showcase huge data sets in a single visualization. Data storytelling workshops, hackathons, and boot camps are ways we promote the idea of viral data stories across the world.

I. Team Cricsights led by Arihant, Mamta, Shankesh, and Vyankatesh

Team Cricsights added to the ongoing IPL 2019 Fever. They combined the IPL data of the past 12 years to unearth some really cool insights.

• Do you know! M.S. Dhoni, CSK’s captain, has scored 49.485% of his runs(2164) out of his total IPL runs(4373) in the last 4 overs of the innings at a strike rate of 193.21. That’s some hard hitting, eh!
• The only century from Kolkata Knight Riders in last 12 seasons of IPL has come from Brendon McCullum(158 runs). Apparently, that was the first game of the first season against Royal Challengers Bangalore.

II. Team MARVELous led by Mickey, Prashant, Rahul, and Kranthi

Who’s your favourite superhero? Oh, wait! better question. Do you think your superhero is the most powerful?

Team MARVELous brought together all the superheroes and supervillains from DC & Marvel universe. They rated everyone based on their superpowers. While having fun with the data they revealed a few cool insights.

• Majority of our superheroes have black (134-25.3%) coloured hair followed by Blond (79-14.9%) and Brown colours (71-13.4%).
• Most of our superheroes have Blue coloured eyes (189 -35.7%) followed by Brown eyes (103 -19.4%).
• But, the combination of blue eye and blond hair is more (58), followed by blue eye and black hair (33).
• Oh, and as per our ratings, Spectre is the most powerful supervillain. Mind it, not Thanos, not Dormmamu. It’s Spectre.

III. Team Marvel by Ikhita, Mugdha, and Sriyansh

Another Marvel fan-base from Gramener dug into the box-office collection of some M.C.U Blockbusters (Aren’t they all?). The collection is massive, which is obvious. But things got interesting when they compared the M.C.U earnings with something else.

• Did you know, Hulk released in 2013 earned $245.36 Million, which was 3.5 times the net income of Apple Inc. in the same year.
• The gross earning of Avengers: Infinity Wars (~$2 billion) is equal to the yearly salary of India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani.

IV. Team Story Cardinals led by Sarad, Saneesh, Sunil, and Hari

This team contributed to the ongoing ‘bar chart race’ fever📊 . They used Gramener’s Twitter data to find who or what has been mentioned the maximum in the past 5 years of tweets 🐦.

Gramener’s Co-founder & Head of Analytics, Ganes Kesari is the only person from the Leadership team to bag a position in the top 3.

Also, after watching this video, our CEO, S. Anand, has become pretty active on Twitter. Lol 🤣.

V. Team X-Factor led by Hemanth, Khushboo, Pravallika, and Shruti

The team’s name confuses you as well? Let me burst the bubble by confirming that the story has nothing to do with the famous singing show, The X-Factor🙅‍♂️.

Their story was based on the X-factor in Gramener – its employees. The story was full of a few surprising insights.

• Surprisingly, most of the candidates join Gramener in the summer season (March-May) compared to rainy. Why surprising? Matter of fact is that usually, students graduate during May and join in the rainy season.
• We have birthdays of our members on every date of the month and every month of the year.

VI. Team Trawell led by Navya, and Bhanu

We love when someone becomes the voice of our beloved comic characters, Dee & Dey. Team Trawell did that to explain an application they are developing. How sweet.

The app offers insights like the best places to visit at a certain time of the year, most visited places, travel-friendly locations, etc. Take a tour🛴.

VII. The team with No Name led by Ranga & Abhilash

They literally did not choose a team name🚫. Seems inspired a lot from Arya Stark’s character in Game of Thrones.

Anyway, Can you tell a story in 15 seconds? Anyone?

Well, they did. And that too a wonderful one focusing on the production of plastics in the last decade. Take a look.

Narratives and Visuals have made easy to understand the complex data. It’s now time to add stories to the list of allies. In layman’s terms, “Data Storytelling is the process to transform complex data into memorable stories using simple narratives, interactive visualizations and surprising insights.”

Oh! and one more thing. We’ve got a decent response from people on twitter for our Data storytelling Bootcamp.

The #DataStorytelling #bootcamp 2.0 was brilliantly organized last Friday @Gramener Hyderabad. The aim was to find surprising data insights, as a team, from any dataset & present them as stories.

The teams came up with wonderful stories, which we'll be posting soon.#datastories pic.twitter.com/Y2ugOzWlu6

— Gramener (@Gramener) May 6, 2019

With your help, we would like to organize it more and include participants from outside Gramener. If you are interested, contact us at marketing@gramener.com.

So, which team’s story you liked the most. Let us know in the comments below. If you have a brilliant data story that needs to be told, share it with us.