The 2021 Data Literacy Awards Shortlist: Final Voting is Now OPEN! We're delighted to introduce the 2021 Data Literacy Awards shortlist candidates, chosen from among the nominations submitted by the general public over the past month. These exemplary candidates helped us speak the language of data even more fluently in 2021, and we'd [...]
Announcing the Launch of the '17 Key Traits of Data Literacy' On-Demand Course & Self-Assessment! When we first launched this business almost three years ago, we published an ebook titled 17 Key Traits of Data Literacy. The book describes 17 important traits that describe highly data literate individuals and it groups these traits [...]
Nominations are Open for the 2021 Data Literacy Awards! It's that time of year again! We'd like your help identifying the individuals and content that helped to advance Data Literacy the most this past year. To do that, use the form below to nominate your favorite 1) data book, 2) data podcast, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Happy Pi Day, 2021! March 14th, or 3.14 in the month.day format, is Pi Day because the first digits of the number π (pi) are 3.14(15926...). Of course pi is intimately connected to the circle, as it's the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. And of course we all know that [...]
The "16 Chart Reading Tips" Checklist Have you ever had that experience where you came across a confusing chart and you just didn't know where to start? This checklist was designed to help people in that exact situation. It's derived from the recent Amazon #1 New Release by Data Literacy Press, Learning to See [...]
Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Data Literacy Awards! A year ago, we announced the winners of the inaugural 2019 Data Literacy Awards, and we're excited to announce the winners of this year. The public nominated and voted for the winners of 5 different categories: 1) Most Insightful Data Book, 2) Most Helpful [...]
Jon Schwabish's "One Chart at a Time" Series Jon Schwabish, host of the Policy Viz podcast and author of Better Presentations as well as the forthcoming Better Data Visualizations, has started 2021 with a video series called "One Chart at a Time". In this series, Jon is inviting guest speakers [...]
Data Literacy Level 1 is Now Available On-Demand! We're excited to announce today that, following the success of our popular Data Literacy Fundamentals On-Demand course, our next course in the series, Data Literacy Level 1: Learning to See Data, is now available to take on-demand as [...]