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About Ben Jones

Ben Jones is the founder and CEO of Data Literacy, LLC, a training and education company that's on a mission to help people learn the language of data. Ben also teaches data visualization at the University of Washington, he's the author of Avoiding Data Pitfalls (Wiley, 2019) and Communicating Data With Tableau (O'Reilly 2014) and he writes about data topics at his blog DataRemixed.com.

April 2024

AI Training Navigator: What to Ask When Choosing the Right AI Training
for Your Team

By |2024-04-09T09:27:55-07:00April 9th, 2024|Announcements|

Free eBook — AI Training Navigator: What to Ask When Choosing the Right AI Training
for Your Team Are you spearheading the search for the right AI training for your team? It’s tough to get up-to-speed on this tech yourself, and evaluate training resources. To make this task easier, we’ve compiled a list of questions [...]

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AI Literacy Fundamentals Hits the Shelves!

By |2024-04-01T15:36:58-07:00April 1st, 2024|Announcements|

AI Literacy Fundamentals Hits the Shelves! My latest book, AI Literacy Fundamentals, is now available to purchase in paperback or digital forms! You can buy the paperback on Amazon, a digital copy for your Kindle, or an interactive PDF right here on our own online store. This is the 11th book in the [...]

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March 2024

What is AI Literacy?

By |2024-03-30T12:27:29-07:00March 7th, 2024|Announcements, Thought Leadership|

What Is AI Literacy? Artificial intelligence, or AI, involves giving computers the ability to solve problems and perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. AI technologies are in use where we work, where we live, and where we interact and transact online. Discussion of AI has skyrocketed in recent months. [...]

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November 2023

Unveiling Our Revamped Data Literacy Fundamentals Course!

By |2023-11-29T23:58:07-07:00November 29th, 2023|Announcements|

Unveiling Our Revamped Data Literacy Fundamentals Course! Today we're announcing the launch of our newly revamped Data Literacy Fundamentals course – a comprehensive learning experience designed to help you lay a firm foundation of data knowledge and skills. With interactive content, engaging delivery, and an eye on practical application, this [...]

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A Brand Refresh for our 5th Birthday!

By |2023-11-28T09:21:31-07:00November 28th, 2023|Announcements|

A Brand Refresh for our 5th Birthday! Happy Birthday, Data Literacy! Five years ago, I left Tableau Software to start this company, calling it simply Data Literacy. The goal was simple but incredibly lofty: "to help people speak the language of data." As of today, we've trained tens of thousands [...]

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October 2023

NOW OFFERING: Data Literacy Solutions

By |2023-10-24T15:16:43-07:00October 24th, 2023|Announcements|

NOW OFFERING: Data Literacy Solutions Here at Data Literacy, we're proud about our growing list of client organizations that have benefited from our world-class training and assessment offerings to date. From on-demand courses to live, instructor-led sessions, we have both taught and learned from people in dozens of industries and disciplines all [...]

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September 2023

Bing Chat’s Powerful but Flawed Chart Reading Capabilities

By |2023-09-30T11:09:51-07:00September 30th, 2023|Helpful Explainers, Thought Leadership|

Bing Chat's Powerful but Flawed Chart Reading Capabilities Due to the ubiquity of data visualizations in our world, the ability to read and interpret charts and graphs has become a critical skill for everyone. It's so important, we created our Level 1 training course around it, along with my book Learning to [...]

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August 2023

July 2023

Resource Review: Nightingale Magazine by DVS

By |2023-07-11T16:16:55-07:00July 11th, 2023|Helpful Explainers, Videos|

Resource Review: Nightingale Magazine In our latest video in the Resource Reviews series on our Data Literacy video channel on YouTube, our CEO Ben Jones gives you a sneak peek at the latest issue of the Nightingale Magazine that's published biannually by the Data Visualization Society, and he talks about why he's such [...]

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June 2023

Trying out the Noteable Plugin for ChatGPT Plus

By |2023-06-02T07:56:40-07:00June 1st, 2023|Tutorials, Videos|

Trying out the Noteable plugin for ChatGPT Plus A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to have Elijah Meeks, Chief Innovation Officer of Noteable, walk me through how to use his new and popular Noteable plugin for ChatGPT, which is currently available to all ChatGPT Plus subscribers (currently [...]

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