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storytelling with data: #54 storytelling, folklore, and data with Joshua Smith

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The Four Functions of Folklore in Data Visualization

The four functions of folklore come from a folk or a strange Bascom and his first function, his folklore lets people escape from repressions imposed upon them by society. We're reemphasizing that when we make these casual things to share with each other, that's where I think we can start applying a folklore lens to understand this. It is worth calling out that I don't think most data visualization is folklore. That to me feels like this casual database is functioning in a really similar way to kind of let me escape.

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