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Increasing Data Literacy �Through Tableau�Jesus Tomas, Joe Kirby, and Hope Moorhead �State of Missouri

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What best describes your data literacy skills?

  • Very anxious of data
  • Somewhat anxious of data
  • Neutral
  • Somewhat confident of data
  • Very confident of data

Use the poll feature to answer

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Data Literacy Journey

Ability to Engage with Data

Willingness to Engage with Data

Confidence to Engage with Data

Acquire and Construct Meaning from Data

Communicate Meaning from Data

Credit: What is Data Literacy… and why is it important Toward Data Science

Author: Megan Dibble

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Ability to Engage with Data

Non – Technical

  • Does the data exist?
  • How is data generated/collected?
  • Where does the data exist?

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Technical

  • How do we get to the data?
  • How can it be joined with related data sets?

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Willingness to Engage with Data

Non – Technical

  • Why are we collecting the data?
  • What questions do you have of the data?
  • Leverage your instincts and industry knowledge with data

Technical

  • Be a Lifelong Learner
  • New Technologies
  • Be flexible to adapt to processes of a program group

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Confidence to Engage with Data

Non – Technical

  • Trust your business knowledge
  • Find a problem that relates and engages you
  • Interact with dashboards/reports

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Technical

  • Testing data
  • What are data governances that exist, to ensure its accuracy/quality?

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Acquire and Construct Meaning from Data

Non – Technical

  • Develop and know your KPIs
  • Collaborate with your data analysts
  • Have a draft/template of dashboard

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Technical

  • Continuous improvement/ iterations of dashboards
  • Knowledge of data and appropriate ways to visualize and analyze
  • Using data to drive decisions rather driving questions

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Communicate Meaning from Data

  • What is the purpose?
  • Who is the audience?
  • What tools/resources do you have to share?
    • Dashboard
    • Reports
    • Charts
  • How are you going to share?

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Data Literacy Journey

Ability to Engage with Data

Willingness to Engage with Data

Confidence to Engage with Data

Acquire and Construct Meaning from Data

Communicate Meaning from Data

Credit: What is Data Literacy… and why is it important Toward Data Science

Author: Megan Dibble

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What best describes your data literacy skills?

  • Very anxious of data
  • Somewhat anxious of data
  • Neutral
  • Somewhat confident of data
  • Very confident of data

Use the poll feature to answer