I enjoyed the preparatory work of arranging data into a presentable form.   The surprise was when I was then put in a position to present this to a critical audience.   I accidentally experience the ability to handle surprising questions.   I was addicted.  The addiction was to the conversation.  The conversation happened to involve the language of data, a vast collection of individual datum.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hypothesis-discovery.com/2021/05/26/conversing-using-data/