Reporting and Communication
researched 2026-05-30T13:08:34.464Z· 19 sources · 16 concepts · skill da-9-reporting-communication
Taxonomy context: Data Analysis > Reporting and Communication
Reporting and Communication
- Taxonomy context: Data Analysis > Reporting and Communication [source]
- Reporting and Communication is the phase that converts analytical work into decisions. Every upstream phase - problem framing, data preparation, modeling, evaluation - is wasted if the audience cannot understand the finding, cannot trust its rigor, and cannot act on the recommendation. Reporting is not a write-up of what the analyst did; it is an argument constructed for a specific decision-maker. [source]
- The full skill body (12 sections + worked example + full sources) lives at the canonical install path: ~/.claude/skills/da-9-reporting-communication/SKILL.md with references/worked-example.md and references/sources.md. [source]
Section index
- The bottom-line-first inversion - BLUF, Minto Pyramid, SCQA (Situation/Complication/Question/Answer). [source]
- Data storytelling (Knaflic) - context-aware framing, chart selection, clutter elimination, preattentive attributes, narrative arc, action titles. [source]
- Audience adaptation - same finding three ways: executive (60-90s decision), technical (verify and reproduce), operational (Monday-morning rule). [source]
- The executive summary one-pager - six fixed slots, the "so what" test, headline metric framing. [source]
- Technical report structure - IMRaD adaptation; canonical sections; reproducibility appendix minimum contents; Limitations sections done well. [source]
- Recommendation framing - evidence/opinion separation, confidence levels (high/moderate/low), alternatives considered, ownership. [source]
- Notebook-as-report - Jupyter, Quarto, Observable, R Markdown; six conversion patterns; what notebooks should not be used for. [source]
- Dashboards and live reports - when a dashboard is the right answer, structural rules, dashboards vs exploratory tools. [source]
- Honest framing of uncertainty - what the data does and does not say, uncertainty taxonomy (sampling / measurement / model / data quality / generalization), the "what we did not find" paragraph. [source]
- Anti-patterns - burying the lede, decoration over information, topic titles, false precision, single-source confirmation, reverse-engineering the conclusion, AI-generated tells, method-section autobiography, confidence-by-omission, no-owner recommendations. [source]
- Worked example - same analysis rendered as executive one-pager, technical write-up excerpt, and operational runbook. [source]
- Quick reference - pre-send checklist, format-by-audience cheat sheet, five-minute report-quality test. [source]
Sources
- Foundational references: Knaflic (Storytelling with Data); Minto (The Pyramid Principle); Few (Now You See It, Information Dashboard Design); Tufte (Visual Display of Quantitative Information); U.S. ODNI Analytic Standards (ICD 203) on confidence-level language; U.S. Army BLUF doctrine; Quarto / Project Jupyter / Wickham & Grolemund R for Data Science on notebook reports; Doumont Trees, Maps, and Theorems; HBR on executive summaries; Heath & Heath Decisive; Silver The Signal and the Noise. [source]
- The full SKILL.md (621 lines) carries the complete instructional content; this hub mirror is an index. [source]
Children
- BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) (frontier)
- Minto Pyramid Principle (frontier)
- SCQA framework (frontier)
- Data storytelling (Knaflic) (frontier)
- Action titles (frontier)
- Audience adaptation (executive / technical / operational) (frontier)
- Executive summary one-pager (frontier)
- Technical report structure (IMRaD) (frontier)
- Reproducibility appendix (frontier)
- Recommendation framing with confidence levels (frontier)
- Alternatives considered (frontier)
- Notebook-as-report (Jupyter / Quarto / Observable / R Markdown) (frontier)
- Dashboards and live reports (frontier)
- Honest framing of uncertainty (frontier)
- Uncertainty taxonomy (frontier)
- Anti-patterns of analytical writing (frontier)
Frontier under this node: Action titles, Alternatives considered, Anti-patterns of analytical writing, Audience adaptation (executive / technical / operational), BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front), Dashboards and live reports, Data storytelling (Knaflic), Executive summary one-pager, Honest framing of uncertainty, Minto Pyramid Principle, Notebook-as-report (Jupyter / Quarto / Observable / R Markdown), Recommendation framing with confidence levels, Reproducibility appendix, SCQA framework, Technical report structure (IMRaD), Uncertainty taxonomy