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Numbers also communicate.
Once you've figured out the numbers for your story, the next step is to be able to use them clearly in your writing. No matter how rigorous your analysis, numbers aren't a story, says Jeff South, a former database editor for the Austin American-Statesman who now teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. Words, not data, make a story. But you must tell the story in a way that connects with people who don't know a spreadsheet from a cookie sheet. And that means, ironically, telling the story almost as if it didn't involve computer analysis.