Why Do You Need Data Literacy?
Embracing Data Literacy
We often think of literacy as the ability to read and write, or as proficiency with specialized knowledge or skills in a specified area.65 But literacy takes many forms. Historically, humans depicted concepts through drawings and pictures even long before they developed alphabets. With technological advancement, both the way we communicate—from drawings to text—and our medium of communication—clay, palm leaves, paper, computers—have evolved over time. Literacy itself has undergone a huge transformation, and it has acquired a new definition that includes the ability to understand data. With increased access to storing massive amounts of data and unprecedented access to that data, ...
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