Storytelling with Data !

I DON'T LIKE TO THINK BEFORE I SPEAK. I LIKE TO BE JUST AS SURPRISED AS EVERYONE ELSE ABOUT WHAT COMES OUT MY MOUTH. Storytelling is one of the most important evolutionary advantages humans have. That is a bold statement, but I believe it is true. When ancient man sat around the village fire, telling stories, they were teaching other villagers where to find food, how to successfully capture game, what herbs cured diseases, which animals to avoid (and how!) and other essential survival skills. This information wasn’t shared in a village newsletter or safety posters on the cave walls (well … I guess they kind of were like early posters … but you know what I mean). Primarily, these lessons came in the form of stories. So for tens of thousands of years, this is how humans have learned the most important things from each other and, therefore, this is how we expect to learn from each other. And every one knows how to twll stories. We know how to tell a joke, bu...