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. [...]
Do These 3 Classic Data Paradoxes Fool You? A Review of the Book "Innumeracy" by John Allen Paulos "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos was first published in 1988, but its argument and anecdotes have stood the test of time. First off, what is innumeracy? Simply speaking, [...]
Data Journaling: The Power and Potential of Qualitative Data Through the Lens of a Mom-to-be Rebecca Gourley is a multimedia storyteller with a background in journalism and design. She’s a self-proclaimed nerd with interests in gaming, coding, hiking, crafts and plant-keeping. She’s been involved in data visualization work for the last couple of years and [...]
The Data Literacy Movement: Founded by Women, Led by Women Happy International Women's Day 2022! I'm so incredibly proud to be a part of the Data Literacy movement, whose purpose is to help people everywhere speak the language of data. Did you know? This movement was FOUNDED by women and is currently being LED [...]
Insights Revealed: 5 Common Data Pain Points Today's Organizations Face In what ways is your team creating an environment where data literacy can flourish, and on the other hand, what factors might be getting in the way of your team’s ability to reap the benefits of data literacy? The Data Literacy Score Team-Based [...]
Data Journaling: an Analog Way to Learn About Data Rebecca Gourley is a multimedia storyteller with a background in journalism and design. She’s a self-proclaimed nerd with interests in gaming, coding, hiking, crafts and plant-keeping. She’s been involved in data visualization work for the last couple of years and just completed the Certificate in Data [...]
The "16 Chart Reading Tips" Checklist Have you ever had that experience where you came across a confusing chart and you just didn't know where to start? This checklist was designed to help people in that exact situation. It's derived from the recent Amazon #1 New Release by Data Literacy Press, Learning to See [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
