Impact Data Chat: Storytelling for Sustainability and Impact Tracking Resources

We are excited to add to the list of resources in our second impact data chat! Check out the list with new tools and resources for your sustainability and impact tracking needs. This is a running list of resources that we will continue to add to as a community. Please feel free to suggest other resources and send us links. We will be building this resource list through your comments and through future data chat conversations. Sign up for the next Impact Data Chat August 25 here!

Storytelling Through Art, Visualization & Video

• Interesting project with John Seely Brown: https://www.desunbound.com
• Example of an artist that collected gum and cigarette butts and used that DNA data to create portraits of strangers and put this into a museum - the project was called Stranger Vision! https://www.forbes.com/sites/evaamsen/2019/09/04/these-3-d-portraits-are-created-from-strangers-dna/
• Johnny Harris' YouTube videos present a variety of quantitative and qualitative data in a compelling visual presentation. He is a skilled storyteller. https://www.youtube.com/c/johnnyharris???
• An interactive fictional game that presents scenarios to learn about existing and emerging digital safety issues. https://digitalsafetea.com/???
• New York Times data stories. https://open.nytimes.com/data/home
• Incorporate gamification into the storytelling and presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lM49slVLkU&t=48s.

Data Collection and Analysis Methods for Storytelling

• InsightShare. Participatory video and storytelling for impact. https://insightshare.org/
• Participatory photography is a really useful method, particularly for stakeholders who might communicate better in ways other than speech (e.g. hearing impaired). https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/dpublog/2015/01/20/participatory-photography-background-history/
• Heather Krauss, Data Equity framework. We all count https://weallcount.com/ ???
• Data Feminism is a book by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein. “It offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science.” https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/?
• Most Significant Change. https://www.betterevaluation.org/en/plan/approach/most_significant_change
• Outcome Harvesting. https://www.betterevaluation.org/en/plan/approach/outcome_harvesting
• Visualizing Change. A guide for coding and tracking change in stories for donors and nonprofits by Alexandra Pittman, ImpactMapper Founder and CEO. This was written in 2015, so all visuals are from an earlier version of ImpactMapper, we have a different look and feel now.

Podcasts

• The Internet Society Foundation is using a podcast as part of our internal storytelling approach https://www.isocfoundation.org/bcc-podcast/

Software tools for Impact and Sustainability Tracking

• Submittable
• ImpactMapper