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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [email protected]. Data Literacy Level 1 - How to Read and Interpret Data Visualizations - will [...]
Take the 17 Key Traits of Data Literacy Self-Assessment Earlier this year we launched the 17 Key Traits of Data Literacy ebook (now available to download and read on your favorite Kindle device!). Organizations and individuals using this resource have been asking for a way to figure out which of these traits they [...]
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 [email protected]. 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 [...]
