Storytelling to Understand Systems and Data

Hello everyone. I have wanted to write this for a while, as it is something that I regularly use in my own job. When people explain software or data, they typically explain how it works or what it does, but not why it exist or some of the other very useful information. And so, I want to share an approach that I use that can give more meaningful and deep context.

Few of you probably know this, but I started my career as a writer for a very small newspaper in Japan, and I really loved all of my writing classes in college. Because of this, I became familiar…