5 Crafting a data story using the DIKW pyramid

This chapter covers

  • A homelessness tale, our scenario for this chapter
  • What a data story is and how it relates to the DIKW pyramid
  • How to incorporate generative AI into the DIKW pyramid

Creating stories is the most exciting part of data storytelling. It’s really about following a plot with a beginning, a main point, and a conclusion—just like in the stories at the cinema or theater. Here, however, there are constraints imposed by the data. In this chapter, we will focus on using the DIKW pyramid by describing two examples. The first example will analyze the problem of homelessness in Italy, and the second will examine the problem of fake news on a hypothetical website. We will also describe ...

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