When people hear “data storytelling,” they sometimes imagine charts behaving themselves and numbers lining up in tidy little rows, ready to explain the world. But local data rarely arrives that clean. It arrives partial, uneven, shaped by timing, trust, fear, disclosure, documentation, and all the things human beings carry into a room before they ever answer a question. That is exactly why this work matters. Our next Data Storytelling for Cultural Creatives  session, Reading