An Illustrated Guide to Data Literacy: Use Your Intuition 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 [...]
Trying out Code Interpreter for ChatGPT Today I had the chance to experiment with an early alpha release of the Code Interpreter plugin for ChatGPT by OpenAI. Code Interpreter is "an experimental model that can use Python, and that handles uploads and downloads. You can find information about this plugin here, and [...]
How Making Data Physical Could Help Us Care for the Planet In celebration of World Earth Day, we have a special guest post by data journalist Miriam Quick. This story was originally published in Nightingale. The city of Sheffield, UK, has long had a reputation for appalling air quality. Dominated by [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]