The book was presented as a guide for designing, delivering, and defending data in communication. The author discussed an idea from the book called the Minto pyramid, which helps solidify logical arguments when presenting data.
He is the recipient of the MIT Sloan Teacher of the Year Award and is also the author of Persuading with Data, a guide to designing, delivering, and defending your data.
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Episode: 189. Numbers Need Narrative: Use Data to Influence...
The book was presented as a guide for designing, delivering, and defending data in communication. The author discussed an idea from the book called the Minto pyramid, which helps solidify logical arguments when presenting data.
He is the recipient of the MIT Sloan Teacher of the Year Award and is also the author of Persuading with Data, a guide to designing, delivering, and defending your data.
The thing to focus on first is getting focused on what's relevant. Having really clear logical support. And so one of the tools that we teach, I talk about in length in Persuading with Data, my book, is this idea of a Minto pyramid, which is, there's many tools to do this, but this is one really flexible tool to just get your logic really solid and clear.