Hello! This week, I read an interesting short story called The Martians. The story discussing the adventure of some mushroom-like Martians that land in Canada looking for a theatre production in New York. They end up talking to a local mushroom about Canada and how to get to the theatre. In the end, they decide to claim Canada as their own!!
As seen in the plot (which can be played with here), the story can be examined through the use of these nodes and references. We see that the Martians and Mushroom first start talking, and then we see their first main strands of conversation. The Martians want to get to the Theatre, and the Mushroom slowly starts talking about how the Theater is formed. They are in Canada, which is a Country, with its own flags and wars that are used to claim the land that is sits upon. The Theatre is often a retelling about how those claims are made.
The Martians hear all of this and come to the conclusion that if they just claim Canada, they can create their own theatre productions!!! What a twist.
I used the following excel sheet to create this visualization. 
The data is not the complete story, which shows a pitfall of Fusion Tables. It does provide some structure to build insights off of. We can use these tables to highlight relationships between characters and events in the stories we tell and share. We can see the progression of the conversation between the Mushroom and the Martians through the course of the story, as well as how the Martians eventually came to the logical conclusion to claim Canada for themselves.
I definitely found Fusion Tables to be neat tools for conveying data as a story type. I will look into using them for our Digital Humanities 101 project in the future!