"The reluctant student" - Section 1 of 7: THE DATA LITERACY DRIVING SCHOOL (free excerpts)

 

This is the first part of the chapter titled “The Data Literacy Driving School”, from the book “The Data Garden And Other Data Allegories”.

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The reluctant student

You look over at your driving instructor and sigh. Why do I have to do this again? you think. Taking data taxis had always been fine before. This seems like it’s going to be a lot of effort, and for what?

Your company’s enrolled you on a mandatory data literacy driving course. For years, data employees have been paying to use other people’s data cars to get places, but after a series of wasted journeys and large-scale data car crashes, there has been a decision to educate everyone on how to drive. Someone realised that if people didn’t know how to drive a data car, they wouldn’t be able to effectively direct a data taxi driver to get the best out of their journey.

At this point, you’re pretty sure you’re never going to need to use these new skills that you’re learning. Taxis have always got you to where you needed to go in the past. OK, so the costs can add up, but they work, as long as you give them clear instructions.

Your cheeks flush as you remember that embarrassing time a taxi driver took you on a two-hour detour, charging you twice as much as the journey was worth, and you didn’t even realise. That’s why you were so high up the list of people to be trained. Ever since then, you’d been forced to stick to buses, until you’d obtained your data literacy driving license and shown that you know how to drive key work routes. Buses are slow and make lots of stops, but they’re cheap and get you from A to B, so you’re far less likely to get scammed or be involved in an accident, even if they do take longer.

OK, it’s got to be done. Let’s get on with this… You turn your head and smile nervously, as your instructor starts to talk you through the various alien-looking dials and instruments in front of you. As you sit there, brow furrowed as you try to grasp the new terms and instructions that you’re being bombarded with, it does make you pause to think: how is it that I’ve been driven around all my life and didn’t come to know any of this before? There’s so much to get my head around, do all taxi drivers really know all this stuff? Does it really take this much to do something as simple as driving down the road?...


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