We're excited to announce that Data Literacy founder & CEO Ben Jones has partnered with online education company Udacity to launch the Data Visualization Nanodegree Program. Registration is now open, and readers of this blog post can claim a 10% off discount through June 21st by using the code 'jonesDV' Learn More! In [...]
Registration is Now Open for Two New Online Courses in Data Literacy! Click the images below to learn more about each new cohort. Register now, as space is limited! If you need financial assistance, please contact us at contact@dataliteracy.com. Data Literacy Level 1 - How to Read and Interpret Data Visualizations - will [...]
It's a year of firsts for DataLiteracy.com, and today is yet another - we just published our first whiteboard video! It's all about four different data scale types: Nominal, Ordinal, Interval & Ratio, and since the first letter of each of those types spells "NOIR", what better way to explain them than with red wine?! [...]
Yesterday afternoon we celebrated the launch of our new website, DataLiteracy.com with a fun happy hour toast and presentation at our headquarters in the Industrious Bellevue office space. Attendees were treated to cocktails from Maker's Mark, appetizers from Purple Cafe, and all received an exclusive 25% off coupon code for upcoming Level 1 and Level [...]
In case you missed the announcement by the Linux Foundation yesterday, a team led by Patrick McGarry and others at data.world has made freely available a set of course materials designed for anyone looking to increase their skills working with data. The materials can be found at datapractices.org/courseware. Why is this announcement so significant? This [...]
So, what does it mean to be highly "Data Literate", anyway? This was the question that prompted the writing of a new ebook in the spring of 2018. By that point, the term "data literacy" had been floating around for a few years, but there wasn't really a consensus on what it means, or whether [...]
Announcing the launch of the DataLiteracy.com! We're excited to announce that the DataLiteracy.com website is now live! Huge thanks to Mike Sayenko and the whole crew at Sayenko Design for the amazing help designing and building this site. Also, kudos and sincere thanks go out to Michael Varouhas for the fun animated explainer video on [...]
Listen to our founder Ben Jones talk about why he left his dream job at Tableau to start up his dream company, Data Literacy, LLC:
