Data story

Use Data stories to promote, explain and summarize live data sets.

Examples

Things to know

Goals	Encourage people to read data by providing a guided way to understand it Keep data current and updated Promote transparency and showcase our open data
Audience	Journalists, community activists, City employees, and general public with an interest in a topic.
URL	sf.gov/data/title-of-data-story
Access	SF.gov editors need advanced permission to make and edit Data stories. You need to: Review SF.gov public data visualization guidelines Complete DataSF/ Data Academy training on PowerBI Work with someone who has made Data stories in the past, if you can Email [e-mail] asking for permissions to work on Data stories. If you are not seeing your embeds as you would expect, start by looking over our documentation Publishing dashboards to SF.gov. Get help with your data by booking Office Hours with DataSF.

Resources

Data visualization standards for SF.gov

Using the Power BI template: A step-by-step guide

In the future, we envision supporting other data embed sources, such as Tableau. Currently we only support PowerBI. If you need help with data analysis and reporting, email the DataSF team.