Data literacy is not one big thing. Leading companies have developed clear personas that they use to guide the development of their data literacy capability. At Widen Collective, a Digital Asset Management company based in Madison WI, the three personas are the data consumer, the data discoverer and the data designer.

Data literacy is one of the central skill sets for 21st C work. Data literacy depends on web of other skills. In this post Karen Chiang looks at the Ibbaka skill graph to see how the different skills connected to data literacy play together.

Asking good questions of the massive amounts of data your organization is collecting is a critical part of data literacy. How you formulate these questions impacts your ability to make good decisions that will drive value-generating outcomes. We go into this by looking at one of the critical questions in skill management. “Do we have the skills needed to realize our vision?”

Data literacy is one of the central skill sets for 21st C work. But why? What are the goals for data literacy and what impact will it have? Karen Chiang looks at these questions as we begin a research program into data literacy.