An Illustrated Guide to Data Literacy: Bias in Research Welcome back to our comic series that explores a range of data literacy concepts. We follow Becky, who describes herself as a bit data-phobic, as she navigates tricky situations at her new job. She'll learn to create effective charts, grasp statistical concepts, and [...]
Training Badges Now Available! Organizations that have been implementing our online training courses have asked for badges, or "micro-credentials," to enable their employees to track and show progress in their learning journey. We're excited to announce that we've responded to this request and rolled out an Open Badge solution that is available [...]
Data Journaling: an Analog Way to Learn About Data Rebecca Gourley is a multimedia storyteller with a background in journalism and design. She’s a self-proclaimed nerd with interests in gaming, coding, hiking, crafts and plant-keeping. She’s been involved in data visualization work for the last couple of years and just completed the Certificate in Data [...]
An Illustrated Guide to Data Literacy: Pie Charts Welcome to our new comic series that explores a range of data literacy concepts. We follow Becky, who describes herself as a bit data-phobic, as she navigates tricky situations at her new job. She'll learn to create effective charts, grasp statistical concepts and confidently [...]
Hi all, Ben Jones here. I hope you've enjoyed our wonderful guest blog posts lately! We've been fortunate to get contributions from some very talented people. I encourage you to reach out to us if you'd like to write one of your own! We're looking for data people like you [...]
How to Make a Beeswarm Plot in RAWGraphs and Then Edit in PowerPoint Do you want to create more complex chart types, but you feel like you don’t have the skills or the time to learn a new tool? I’m here to help! Let me show you how to make a beeswarm [...]
Building Data Trust Why Trust in Data Sometimes Erodes and How to Prevent it from Eroding in the First Place The following guest blog post was written by Jodi Pafford. Jodi is a data analyst, visualizer, and insight sleuth who is [...]
Like what you're reading? Learn all this and more in our on-demand course Data Literacy Fundamentals or purchase its companion book in PDF form. The Difference Between “Prevalence” and “Incidence” and Why We Care Have you heard the terms “prevalence” and “incidence” in the news lately? What’s the difference between them and [...]
Handmade in Punjab: embroidered data in phulkaris The following Women's History Month guest blog post was written by Sana Ahmed Wilder. Sana is a data visualizer specializing in building capacity of federal and state education agencies. She analyzes and communicates student data using modern visualization and storytelling techniques. Sana lives in [...]
Pivot Into a Data Career: How My Journey Can Help You Start Yours Alli Torban is a contributor to Data Literacy LLC. She’s an Information Design Consultant based in Washington, D.C. and hosts the podcast Data Viz Today. Alli specializes in designing data visualizations for industry experts to help get their work seen [...]