All data tells a story. And like all stories, its power and purpose depend on the protagonist and their point of view. — If ‘history’, as Churchill famously said, ‘is written by the victors’, who and what and which data is telling our modern (and our historical) data story? Data’s narrative, like history, is as much dependent on what has been omitted, as it is dependent on what has been committed, to record. And our data story begins with the consistent omission of women.
