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.

Score a Free Webinar for your Book Club!

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 [...]

By |2019-12-17T20:53:47-07:00December 16th, 2019|Announcements|0 Comments

Tableau Training for Journalists at USC Annenberg

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 [...]

By |2019-10-29T16:47:43-07:00October 29th, 2019|Tutorials|0 Comments

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

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 [...]

By |2019-10-23T01:00:09-07:00October 23rd, 2019|Announcements, Contests|0 Comments

Announcing 3 Course Scholarships for Immigrants!

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 [...]

By |2019-10-12T19:43:29-07:00October 12th, 2019|Announcements|0 Comments

Take the 17 Key Traits Self-Assessment!

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 [...]

By |2021-09-10T13:26:34-07:00July 2nd, 2019|Resources|0 Comments

Whiteboard Series #001: Four Data Scale Types

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?! [...]

By |2019-04-11T22:42:00-07:00April 11th, 2019|Whiteboard|0 Comments