Geographic Literacy
My philosophy is that “it’s all about stories”.
Data is just information. But information doesn’t really mean anything until it’s in formation in the form of a story.
For some reason, we Americans tend to be geographically ignorant. Maybe that’s because our maps have been boring. That’s about to change. Check out Dave Imus’ award-winning Essential Geography of the United States of America.
It often amazes me at how incurious many of my fellow Americans are about our country’s history and its geography.