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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.

January 2021

Jon Schwabish’s “One Chart at a Time” Series

By |2021-01-14T16:16:03-07:00January 14th, 2021|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

August 2020

Announcing the Launch of our First On-Demand Course!

By |2020-09-14T17:25:34-07:00August 3rd, 2020|Uncategorized|

Data Literacy Fundamentals is Now Available On-Demand! After almost two years of offering training exclusively on a live, instructor-led basis, we're excited to announce that as of today, our Data Literacy Fundamentals training program is now available to take on-demand as a self-paced course on our site! We understand that [...]

June 2020

December 2019

Score a Free Webinar for your Book Club!

By |2019-12-17T20:53:47-07:00December 16th, 2019|Announcements|

An Offer for Bulk Book Orderers Prior to the end of January, 2020, the first 5 groups that order 10 or more copies of 'Avoiding Data Pitfalls' will qualify for a FREE VIRTUAL PRESENTATION and LIVE Q&A session with the book's author, Ben Jones, Founder & CEO of Data Literacy, LLC. Ben will [...]

November 2019

Avoiding Data Pitfalls – FREE Guide & Checklist

By |2021-10-02T12:38:25-07:00November 14th, 2019|Publications|

The "Avoiding Data Pitfalls" Guide & Checklist Just like in grammar and writing, a huge part of becoming highly data literate is knowing what mistakes to avoid. Because of this, we're excited to announce the publication of founder Ben Jones's new book, Avoiding Data Pitfalls. Our data isn't [...]

October 2019

Tableau Training for Journalists at USC Annenberg

By |2019-10-29T16:47:43-07:00October 29th, 2019|Tutorials|

This past weekend, founder Ben Jones had the chance to travel to Los Angeles to train a group of professional journalists at USC on how to use Tableau Public, a free software product, to create an exploratory dashboard showing where high rates of vaccine preventable diseases had been recorded across California counties from 2001 to [...]

Announcing the Winners of the 1st Data Literacy Immigrant Spirit Scholarship Contest!

By |2019-10-23T01:00:09-07:00October 23rd, 2019|Announcements, Contests|

Please join us in congratulating the following 3 individuals who have won the 1st ever Data Literacy "Immigrant Spirit" Scholarship Giveaway! They win a full pass to any upcoming Data Literacy training course, a $500 value! Mahrad Mohammadi was born in Iran, now lives in the United States, and he is the Acting Ground Safety [...]

Announcing 3 Course Scholarships for Immigrants!

By |2019-10-12T19:43:29-07:00October 12th, 2019|Announcements|

In honor of all those who have left their native homeland to settle permanently in another country, Data Literacy is giving away 3 scholarships to individuals who have emigrated FROM anywhere TO anywhere. Winners will be chosen at random on Friday, October 18 at 12:00pm PST. To enter, simply subscribe to our distribution list by [...]

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