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 [...]
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 [...]
Data Literacy welcomes Allen Hillery to the Advisory Board We're excited to announce that Allen Hillery has agreed to join the Data Literacy Advisory Board as a volunteer advisor. Mr. Hillery, based in New York City, brings a wealth of experience in both teaching and writing about data and [...]
2019 was an exciting year for Data Literacy, and we're thrilled to end the year by announcing the winners of the inaugural Data Literacy Awards! Scroll through the images below to see the gold, silver & bronze winners for each of the 5 different categories: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]