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Data Literacy Cartoons
It could be anything
2023-08-17
Piotr Kononow
Have you encountered resistance to trusting data and data driven decisions?
OMG, It's Crashing!
2023-03-16
Not all charts are sincere. Some are meant to inform you, other want to mislead you. You should always pay attention to details.
No clue what it means
2023-02-09
Sometimes, the report is just perfect. The data isn't.
Data Confidence in Healthcare
2022-03-31
If it's about our health, they better get those numbers right.
Value of Metadata for the Public
2022-03-24
No matter how accurate, detailed, in depth the numbers are - without context they are just digits or lines.
Who Wants to Understand Data
2022-02-17
Everyone in organization can have different understanding of the same data. So Phone a Friend might not solve the problem.
Levels of Data Literacy in Organization
2021-04-22
Here is how I see the required data competencies of various roles of organizations. Does it match your experience?
Just use this table...
2021-02-11
Business users don't always have to take a back seat to IT when it comes to data.
Build data literacy and democratization in your organization with Data Catalog and data documentation.
What are we actually reporting?
2020-07-21
It might be familiar to you - maybe in your organization there is a constant talk about this [KEY BUSINESS METRIC]. Executives and managers are talking about it growing or falling or certain goals for them, but many people don't even know what they are measuring exactly, how they should be calculated or even having conflicting definitions.
If that sounds familiar it is because it is quite common. Most of human words are fuzzy and mean different things to different people. Think about Sales for instance - what date do we take? Order date, delivery date or invoice date? What about refunds? Do we deduct it from current month? What exchange rate should we take for foreign sales? There are many more questions...
Solution? Identify metrics, differentiate similar ones with unique names, provide clear definitions and share. Congratulations! You just implemented a business glossary!