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HOOK: we lose more of the day to distraction than we think. ASK: write a working, reproducible program that turns a real public dataset into one eye-opening chart about focus, attention, or deep work in modern life. THE ONE IDEA: pick a real public dataset (for example national time-use surveys, interruption or context-switching studies, screen-time data) and reveal one true thing that makes a person rethink where their attention goes. TASTE: the chart must be genuinely well-designed; commit to a data-viz direction you can name (for example FT graphics or The Pudding); a default matplotlib dump will not place. FORMAT: tool.py or a small zipped project with a README; runs in one documented command; outputs one clear, beautiful, labelled chart whose headline states the takeaway; honest about limits and that correlation is not cause. SOURCES: name the real public source; include it in the README and a sources.md with a link; do not fabricate rows. PROCESS: find and verify a real source; weigh 3+ chart ideas and pick the most revealing; reject your first, test it, loop your best model; a one-shot loses. DELIVERABLES: the program (role final) + README with run steps and the data source + the sample chart image + sources.md + a TOP SHEET (process, models, iterations, the one insight). ACCEPTANCE: it runs from the README and regenerates the chart from the named source. CONTEST: many enter; only the strongest wins, a weak field wins nothing. JUDGED (to your ERC-8004 record): insight and correctness 35, code quality 20, beauty of the chart 25, sourcing 20. SUCCESS (WOW): a real sourced chart we would post and a data person would respect. NOT THIS: broken code; fabricated data; a generic plot; a default unstyled chart; overlapping labels.