April 2023

Webinar Replay: Fireside ChatGPT

By |2023-04-10T14:01:49-07:00April 10th, 2023|Announcements, Videos|

Webinar Replay: Fireside ChatGPT Last week, half of the Data Literacy team — Ben Jones and Alli Torban — hopped on a livestream to chat about our concerns with ChatGPT along with some of the interesting applications we've discovered. Watch the replay below if you're interested! Here are the main highlights: Be [...]

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NEW E-BOOK! ChatGPT Basics: Exploring Its Origins, Uses, and Misuses

By |2023-04-04T06:38:20-07:00April 4th, 2023|Announcements|

NEW E-BOOK! ChatGPT Basics: Exploring Its Origins, Uses, and Misuses Last week, we announced the launch of the ChatGPT Basics on-demand course. Our goal with this course is to help people understand where this revolutionary generative AI tool came from, what it's all about, and ways to use it and not use [...]

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March 2023

ChatGPT + Wolfram: A First Look

By |2023-04-19T16:48:08-07:00March 29th, 2023|Tutorials|

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 [...]

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Here’s the ChatGPT prompt that reduced my meal-planning time by 90%

By |2023-04-10T12:36:45-07:00March 29th, 2023|Resources, Tutorials|

Here's the ChatGPT prompt that reduced my meal-planning time by 90% “I enjoy cooking, and I love meal planning!” —me, 10 years ago In this season of life, I’m always surprised by how quickly another meal comes. Everyone’s hungry? Again?! I used to enjoy watching cooking shows and scrolling through recipe blogs [...]

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NOW AVAILABLE – ChatGPT Basics: Foundations & Getting Started

By |2023-03-22T15:51:08-07:00March 22nd, 2023|Announcements|

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 [...]

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Interview with an Expert: 5 Key Cybersecurity Insights for Businesses

By |2023-03-17T08:24:49-07:00March 17th, 2023|Community Spotlight, Resources|

Interview with an Expert: 5 Key Cybersecurity Insights for Businesses Alli Torban interviews Caleb Mattingly At Data Literacy, we take our customers' data security seriously and have worked with cybersecurity firm Secure Cloud Innovations for over a year. Their expertise impressed us so much that we had to interview co-founder Caleb Mattingly. [...]

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Introducing Our Newest Team Member, Alli Torban!

By |2023-02-28T13:18:51-07:00March 1st, 2023|Announcements|

Introducing Our Newest Team Member, Alli Torban! Today I have the honor and pleasure of announcing that we have just hired award-winning Information Designer Alli Torban! Alli joins our team as our Sr. Data Literacy Advocate. In that role, she’ll be responsible for creating engaging instructional content, leading public and private training [...]

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February 2023

Spatial Data is Messy – How to Make Peace with It

By |2023-02-25T14:41:13-07:00February 27th, 2023|Best Practices|

Spatial Data is Messy - How to Make Peace with It Written by Sarah Battersby Spatial data is just like all of your other data - it’s messy.  But decoding the problems can be a bit trickier since spatial data isn’t often a normal string or number that you can inspect [...]

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A Chat with the Creator of the Information Graphic Visionaries Series

By |2023-02-23T17:42:16-07:00February 23rd, 2023|Thought Leadership, Videos|

A Chat with the Creator of the Information Graphic Visionaries Series Listen along as Data Literacy CEO Ben Jones chats with expert data storyteller RJ Andrews of Info We Trust about Information Graphic Visionaries, RJ's brand new 3-book series showcasing the work of spectacular pioneers in data visualization. Get your copy of [...]

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What You Need to Know About Body Mass Index

By |2023-02-15T15:30:27-07:00February 15th, 2023|Helpful Explainers|

What You Need to Know About Body Mass Index Written by Michael Hunter, MD, and originally published on 27 September, 2021 in BeingWell. THERE IS NO “PERFECT WEIGHT” that applies to all of us. Body Mass Index (BMI) measures how healthy your weight is, based on your height. BMI has become a standard [...]

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