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.

A Brand Refresh for our 5th Birthday!

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 [...]

By |2023-11-28T09:21:31-07:00November 28th, 2023|Announcements|Comments Off on A Brand Refresh for our 5th Birthday!

NOW OFFERING: Data Literacy Solutions

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 [...]

By |2023-10-24T15:16:43-07:00October 24th, 2023|Announcements|Comments Off on NOW OFFERING: Data Literacy Solutions

Bing Chat’s Powerful but Flawed Chart Reading Capabilities

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 [...]

By |2023-09-30T11:09:51-07:00September 30th, 2023|Helpful Explainers, Thought Leadership|Comments Off on Bing Chat’s Powerful but Flawed Chart Reading Capabilities

Resource Review: Nightingale Magazine by DVS

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 [...]

By |2023-07-11T16:16:55-07:00July 11th, 2023|Helpful Explainers, Videos|Comments Off on Resource Review: Nightingale Magazine by DVS

Trying out the Noteable Plugin for ChatGPT Plus

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 [...]

By |2023-06-02T07:56:40-07:00June 1st, 2023|Tutorials, Videos|Comments Off on Trying out the Noteable Plugin for ChatGPT Plus

Now Available for Pre-Order: Working with Data Professionals

Now Available for Pre-Order: "Working with Data Professionals (even if you aren't one!)" Here at Data Literacy, we're about to launch our first course in what will become a series aimed at empowering leaders to make a difference with data. The course is called "Working with Data Professionals (Even if You Aren't [...]

By |2023-05-25T05:55:24-07:00May 24th, 2023|Announcements|Comments Off on Now Available for Pre-Order: Working with Data Professionals

Trying Out Code Interpreter for ChatGPT

Trying out Code Interpreter for ChatGPT Today I had the chance to experiment with an early alpha release of the Code Interpreter plugin for ChatGPT by OpenAI. Code Interpreter is "an experimental model that can use Python, and that handles uploads and downloads. You can find information about this plugin here, and [...]

By |2023-05-08T16:15:04-07:00May 1st, 2023|Helpful Explainers, Tutorials, Videos|Comments Off on Trying Out Code Interpreter for ChatGPT

ChatGPT + Wolfram: A First Look

ChatGPT + Wolfram: A First Look It seems the marriage of statistical AI (LLMs such as OpenAI's ChatGPT) and symbolic AI (rules-based programming languages such as Wolfram Language) is poised to revolutionize how we perform some of the tasks of data analysis and data visualization, as well as how we go about [...]

By |2023-04-19T16:48:08-07:00March 29th, 2023|Tutorials|Comments Off on ChatGPT + Wolfram: A First Look

NOW AVAILABLE – ChatGPT Basics: Foundations & Getting Started

NOW AVAILABLE - ChatGPT Basics: Foundations & Getting Started Hello, dataphiles and dataphobes alike! Here at Data Literacy, we've become convinced over the past few months that, going forward, in order to effectively speak the language of data, all of us will need to be aware of the basic concepts of artificial [...]

By |2023-03-22T15:51:08-07:00March 22nd, 2023|Announcements|Comments Off on NOW AVAILABLE – ChatGPT Basics: Foundations & Getting Started