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### Preflight
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### What does this PR do?
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# distributed-ethnography

Distributed ethnography is a method of understanding a "community’s belief systems through their own narratives" (K Mausch, 2018). It takes the idea
that it's very difficult to use technology to understand what someone means, and has the storyteller quickly explain the meaning of their story which
can be used as metadata. Technology can then use this metadata to aggregate and slice stories from hundreds or thousands of storytellers, and provide
the end consumer of this information a way of understanding trends and then diving into the individual stories.
Distributed ethnography is a method of understanding a "community’s belief systems through their own narratives" (K Mausch, 2018). It tackles the idea
that it's very difficult to use technology to understand what someone means by having the storyteller quickly explain the meaning of their story across
a set of dimensions. These dimensions can then be used as metadata. Technology can then use this metadata to aggregate and slice stories from hundreds
or thousands of storytellers, and provide the end consumer of this information a way of understanding trends and then diving into the individual stories.

I first came across distributed ethnography through a speech given by Dave Snowden (D Snowden, 2016). In that speech, Dave makes a very strong case
for the weaknesses in traditional survey-based, and presented his approach of having survey respondents tell a story and then rank the meaning over
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