Teaching Data Storytelling in the Age of AI

Statisticians have been harping on the importance of communicating results clearly and accurately to a variety of audiences for decades, and yet we continue to struggle with this issue, now well into the age of misinformation. Recent innovations in document authoring and data visualization software, (e.g., Markdown, Quarto, Shiny, D3.js, Observable, etc.) have made it easier for more people to showcase their work online. At the same time, some of us have found ourselves teaching writing to a degree we might not have anticipated when we entered graduate school. As generative AI roils the humanities, we explore recent innovations in the teaching of writing and communication within statistics and data science, with a particular focus on the role of generative AI.