5 Generative AI Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them TL;DR: With respect to generative AI: 1) you can’t ignore it, 2) you can’t fully trust it, 3) you need to maintain “cognitive vigilance,” 4) your own words are still more powerful, and 5) you need to lean in and educate yourself right [...]
Happy Birthday, Data Literacy! Reflections on Our 3rd Year Today is the final day of our third year of operation, so as co-founder and CEO, I'd like to wish my fellow team members, our advisors, partners and clients a fond Happy 3rd Birthday!! As of tomorrow, we will have successfully made it all [...]
Announcing the Launch of the '17 Key Traits of Data Literacy' On-Demand Course & Self-Assessment! When we first launched this business almost three years ago, we published an ebook titled 17 Key Traits of Data Literacy. The book describes 17 important traits that describe highly data literate individuals and it groups these traits [...]
Hi all, Ben Jones here. I hope you've enjoyed our wonderful guest blog posts lately! We've been fortunate to get contributions from some very talented people. I encourage you to reach out to us if you'd like to write one of your own! We're looking for data people like you [...]
Pivot Into a Data Career: How My Journey Can Help You Start Yours Alli Torban is a contributor to Data Literacy LLC. She’s an Information Design Consultant based in Washington, D.C. and hosts the podcast Data Viz Today. Alli specializes in designing data visualizations for industry experts to help get their work seen [...]
How W.E.B Du Bois Used Data Visualization to Debunk Social Darwinism and Tell A Story of Resilience Editor's note: A version of the following article by Allen Hillery also appears on the Nightingale blog of the Data Visualization Society here. For other articles written by Mr. Hillery, see his Medium page. William Edward Burghardt Du [...]
Jon Schwabish's "One Chart at a Time" Series Jon Schwabish, host of the Policy Viz podcast and author of Better Presentations as well as the forthcoming Better Data Visualizations, has started 2021 with a video series called "One Chart at a Time". In this series, Jon is inviting guest speakers [...]
Data Literacy Fundamentals is Now Available On-Demand! After almost two years of offering training exclusively on a live, instructor-led basis, we're excited to announce that as of today, our Data Literacy Fundamentals training program is now available to take on-demand as a self-paced course on our site! We understand that [...]
Data Literacy welcomes Allen Hillery to the Advisory Board We're excited to announce that Allen Hillery has agreed to join the Data Literacy Advisory Board as a volunteer advisor. Mr. Hillery, based in New York City, brings a wealth of experience in both teaching and writing about data and [...]
Yesterday afternoon we celebrated the launch of our new website, DataLiteracy.com with a fun happy hour toast and presentation at our headquarters in the Industrious Bellevue office space. Attendees were treated to cocktails from Maker's Mark, appetizers from Purple Cafe, and all received an exclusive 25% off coupon code for upcoming Level 1 and Level [...]