The challenge of writing non-fiction

William Allen White was a newspaper editor in Emporia, Kansas, in the first half of the 20th century. One day, a friend who worked in Washington D.C., approached him about an idea he had. He wanted to start a service in which he would record the votes of every senator and congressman on every issue and send his results to any newspaper willing to subacribe to his service. (This was long before the days of Internet or computers). He told White his only misgiving was that he wondered if editors would be interested in what amounted to dull data.
White's response to him is worth remembering. "Just give me the facts," he said. "I'll give them vitality."