Nostalgia is really interesting in that it’s inherently bittersweet. It’s nice because it grounds us in a shared timeline and focuses on mostly positive aspects of some past point in time, but it’s also sad because it means thinking back fondly on a time that will never be again.

So maybe it’s the bitter half of that bittersweet feeling that you’re subconsciously averse to? Either that or maybe your past/childhood was mostly negative or even traumatic? I’m no psychologist, so really I don’t know what I’m talking about.

Haha, yeah. I think that’s the intent of those first two panels.

But then the last two subvert expectations and reveal that it was about data modeling all along! 😲

I just mean I can relate to the comic.

In my line of work it’s not uncommon for the people requesting data visualizations to ask the data engineers/analysts to simply remove data points that don’t suit whatever narrative they’re trying to construct with the visual. We have to push back against that whenever possible because, you know… that’s bullshit.

Data Architect/Analyst here. I felt this comic.