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Dave Wells on data literacy

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Few people in the data industry today are better qualified to opine on data literacy than Dave Wells.

He’s had a decades-long career with data, including TDWI education director for eight years, now the education director at eLearningCurve, and most recently an industry analyst with Eckerson Group. He and I developed and taught a TDWI course on data storytelling.

He has given data literacy and related issues more thought than almost anyone else I know. I asked him for his thoughts on it.

I think data literacy has been a need starting with the introduction of self-service tools. But it hasn’t had much attention until recently.

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Qlik: serious about data literacy

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Qlik could have forgotten the tired slogans — such as “data is the new currency” — at the recent Qlik Qonnections and gone straight for the what makes Qlik stand out. That starts with their tastiest, chewiest morsel: their apparently serious campaign for data literacy.

What is data literacy? Valerie Logan, Gartner data and analytics research director, described it in the show’s best presentation: It’s “the ability to read, work with, analyze, and argue with data.”

“This is the heart,” said CEO Mike Capone in the morning session, “of what’s going to drive the future.”