How to Annotate Like a Designer Do you wish the text in your charts looked more refined? I’ll show you how to make your annotations look more professionally designed with a few small tweaks using PowerPoint. Once you see these tweaks in action, you’ll begin to make these refinements more naturally just like [...]
VIDEO: How to Avoid "Graphical Gaffes" Our CEO Ben Jones, author of Avoiding Data Pitfalls (2019, Wiley) and Learning to See Data (2020, Data Literacy Press), discusses some examples of visualizations he has seen "in the wild" recently that provide opportunities to learn what to NOT to do when communicating data visually. Watch [...]
Now Available: Our Origin Story in "The Introspective Entrepreneur" Almost four years ago, I was sitting at my desk at work in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, and I made the decision to go for it: I logged into my GoDaddy account and I purchased this domain, dataliteracy.com. The [...]
Working with Data Professionals (when you aren't one!) Part 4: Up Leveling Your Partnership with Data Professionals The author of this four part blog series is Anna-Maria Steverson, Content Analytics Manager at Netflix. The series is titled "Working with Data Professionals (when you aren't one!)" Anna also teaches our Data Literacy [...]
Working with Data Professionals (when you aren't one!) Part 3: Managing a Team of Data Professionals The author of this blog series is Anna-Maria Steverson, Content Analytics Manager at Netflix. The series it titled "Working with Data Professionals (when you aren't one!)" The first post in the series is titled "What [...]
Working with Data Professionals (when you aren't one!) Part 2: How to Hire a Data Professional In the first blog of this series, I talked about the different skillsets that a data professional may have and the type of work they could do. In this post, I'm going to spend some [...]
Working with Data Professionals (when you aren't one!) Part 1: What Do Data Professionals Do? The following guest blog post kicks off a four part series titled "Working with Data Professionals (when you aren't one!)." This first post helps the reader better understand the various types of tasks and activities that [...]
Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Data Literacy Awards! We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2021 Data Literacy Awards, chosen by popular vote from among the shortlist candidates nominated by the general public. These exemplary winners helped us speak the language of data even more fluently in 2021, and we’d like to [...]
An Illustrated Guide to Data Literacy: Base Rate Fallacy Welcome back to our comic series that explores a range of data literacy concepts. We follow Becky, who describes herself as a bit data-phobic, as she navigates tricky situations at her new job. She'll learn to create effective charts, grasp statistical concepts, and [...]
Data Stories: Bringing Data to Communities This guest blog post has been written by Cameron Fadjo, a learning scientist behind multiple globally recognized programs in computer science education, and founder of Data Stories, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization bringing data literacy and storytelling to communities, businesses, and individuals around the world. Cameron would like to [...]
