Category Archives: Narrative
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Statistics in the Triad, Part VI: The Story as Unit of Observation
Posted on July 28, 2017 by Steve in Narrative, SenseMaker®, Sensemaking, Statistics, VisualizationIf you had asked me a year ago to identify the primary unit of observation in a SenseMaker project, I would have said, without much hesitation, it’s the story, of course. When I started writing Part IV in this series on Confidence Regions, however, I had to revisit that question. I knew what was typically […]
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Tom Brady and the Intrinsic Narrative
Posted on March 2, 2017 by Steve in Narrative, SenseMaker®A few Sunday evenings ago, I watched Super Bowl LI, the climactic game of the 2016-17 season of the National Football League. With the loss and exit by the Dallas Cowboys earlier in the playoffs, I had no emotional stake in the outcome of the game, but at least some of the TV commercials might be […]
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Narrative Research’s Top 10 List
Posted on August 31, 2014 by Laurie in NarrativeThis post originally appeared on the Cognitive Edge blog on July 24, 2012. It’s about time we have a top ten list about narrative research. This is in the spirit of David Letterman, a late night talk show host here in the U.S. 10. Narrative research doesn’t eliminate leadership errors – you can have great […]
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Striding toward Cynefin
Posted on June 17, 2012 by Laurie in Cognitive Edge, NarrativeThis post originally appeared on the Cognitive Edge blog on December 8, 2010. Don’t get me wrong — my career has not been one long preparation for narrative research. If it feels like that some days, I try to remind myself that the real path was much less purposeful, that striding might be better described […]
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