Instead of an interview, they give her a take-home test. They send Jess a million rows of government data and ask her to come up with a headline and craft a narrative, using only charts and graphs. They say: the best visualizations create a synesthesia-like bridge between intuition and information. They give her three days to complete the exercise, and it takes her three days and an hour. She stays up all night working, it’s like calisthenics for her brain—it’s a little bit thrilling to use her powers for good—and when she is done with the analysis she sends back a headline that reads It’s
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