FROM DATA POINTS TO STORYTIME: How Chandra Donelson Turned a Pandemic Moment into a Publishing Movement

In 2020, the world paused. For Chandra Donelson, that pause came in the form of a 600-square-foot apartment, a laptop on the kitchen table, and a four-year-old son asking the most profound question of the pandemic: What is data? At the time, Donelson was juggling a full-time role as a data manager for the Department of the Army and pursuing a master’s in data science and analytics from the University of Missouri. In between Zoom meetings and coursework, she found herself trying to explain the concept of data to her curious son an endeavor that turned out to be surprisingly difficult.