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Dave Wells on data literacy

June 14, 2018 by Ted Cuzzillo

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

May 8, 2018 by Ted Cuzzillo

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.”

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