Discover the latest news and views on the impact data literacy has on your organization and career progression.
Dr. Paul Barth, Global Head of Data Literacy, Qlik
The pandemic has forced businesses to find a way to design and deliver digital services. This only revealed the deficiency of technical know-how available as employers search high and low for staff with the right skills to help them compete in a permanently hybrid world.
Kevin Hanegan, Chief Learning Officer, Qlik & Chair, Data Literacy Project Advisory Board
Contrary to commonly believed, true insights are not gained from answers but from questions. What are some key things to ensure we ask the right questions when looking to gain insights from data?
The digital revolution has truly transformed modern organizations, embedding data and analytics in every business process and customer interaction. As advances in technology continues, workers in all roles will need a new skill —data literacy— to collaborate with these new systems and each other.
As new technologies become ubiquitous in the modern workplace and data plays an increasingly prominent role in decision-making, human employees need the skills to work collaboratively with their new digital colleagues.
Data Literacy is not achieved by mastering a uniform set of competencies that applies to everyone. Those that are relevant to each individual can vary significantly depending on how they interact with data and what part of the data process they are involved in.
When you are being bombarded with such high volumes of information, it becomes hard to process it all, let alone understand its relevance and use it to make intelligent decisions.
Regular exposure to data gives us so many opportunities to turn it into insights, but often our ability to use this information for accurate decision-making is clouded by other factors.
As cookie notifications seemingly appear after every click and swipe, and the ways that companies use browsing data to target consumers evolve, cookie fatigue can prevent users from thinking carefully about what is happening to their data.
Sean Farrington, EVP EMEA, Pluralsight
It is crucial that industry leaders recognise the value of equipping their workforce with AI skills now, so that they can future-proof the business and remain at the edge of innovation.
There will be explicit requirements for data and analytics skills among more job roles in 2022, including customer service, marketing, sales, and operations. To compete and remain driven by data, organizations will look toward data literacy as a way to prepare their staff for the future.
