This is the latest instance of Datacopter for Channel 4 drama, The Promise. Here it is called a ‘Twitter Tracker‘ and it represents all of the conversation relating to the drama over the four weekly episodes. When Channel 4 first saw The Promise, they recognized that the drama may cause debate around the Israel / Palestine crisis, and wanted to find a way to represent this conversation in a fair way. Written and directed by Peter Kosminsky, The Promise is a compelling drama set in both modern day Israel and 1940′s Palestine, telling a tale of two ages via two main characters, Erin and her Grandfather. It’s definitely a gripping drama, which has had amazing tweets from people saying as much, so if you haven’t seen it I highly recommend catching up.
A story is an anecdote drawn from the culture. A well-crafted anecdote or story has value both as an amusement and as a source of insight into the world from which it is drawn. Since the plural of 'anecdote' is data, if you gather a large enough collection of anecdotal stories you ought to have a data base sufficient to model the culture from which the stories are drawn