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Data Literacy in Practice

You're reading from   Data Literacy in Practice A complete guide to data literacy and making smarter decisions with data through intelligent actions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246758
Length 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kevin Hanegan Kevin Hanegan
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Angelika Klidas Angelika Klidas
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Understanding the Data Literacy Concepts
2. Chapter 1: The Beginning – The Flow of Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Unfolding Your Data Journey 4. Chapter 3: Understanding the Four-Pillar Model 5. Chapter 4: Implementing Organizational Data Literacy 6. Chapter 5: Managing Your Data Environment 7. Part 2: Understanding How to Measure the Why, What, and How
8. Chapter 6: Aligning with Organizational Goals 9. Chapter 7: Designing Dashboards and Reports 10. Chapter 8: Questioning the Data 11. Chapter 9: Handling Data Responsibly 12. Part 3: Understanding the Change and How to Assess Activities
13. Chapter 10: Turning Insights into Decisions 14. Chapter 11: Defining a Data Literacy Competency Framework 15. Chapter 12: Assessing Your Data Literacy Maturity 16. Chapter 13: Managing Data and Analytics Projects 17. Chapter 14: Appendix A – Templates 18. Chapter 15: Appendix B – References 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing the four fundamental pillars

When a company lacks the necessary soft or hard technical skills, as well as the tools to work with data, the leadership operates in a clouded environment. As a result, they are hampered from making data-informed decisions because they lack the critical and required data vision or insights. Worse, they will fall behind in their businesses, losing their competitive advantage and—ultimately—their customers.

We can all use data-informed decision-making to improve our performance, innovate our work and products, and add more value to our businesses when we have a data-literate workforce. This applies not only to individuals but to your entire organization, from top to bottom, team to individual. This enables your organization to overcome challenges more quickly—or more accurately—more easily, and become able to drive your future plans (your strategic objectives).

When we look back to the first pandemic year, 2020...

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