Do You Speak the Language of Data?

"You can't manage what you don't measure," as Peter Drucker famously said. We know that data should be at the heart of every decision we make. We know this when it comes to our business, our health, and really most aspects of our lives.

And yet, a recent survey from Qlik found that a whopping 76% of business leaders don't consider themselves data literate. They don't trust their own abilities to make sense of and make decisions with data. That is shocking, right?

How can we be data-driven if we don't understand data? Um...we can't. So we need to become more data literate.

Lesson: Data Literacy

In this lesson, I define a few terms and explain that being data literate doesn't mean getting a data science degree. It just means changing your mindset and building a few simple skills.

Listen: Data Literacy with Ben Jones

In this interview, Ben Jones, founder of a company called Data Literacy, talks about his journey toward becoming a data literacy evangelist and educator. He also provides some tangible advice to help you up your data literacy game very quickly.

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