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I often talk about my son - now 7 - and our (tongue-in-cheek) disappointment when we discovered he couldn’t read or write or talk when he was born. I joke that instead of enrolling him in an undergraduate degree in English literature that we began to sing to him, and read to him, and play word games and watch Sesame Street.

Data literacy is no different. We don’t need to start this journey with expensive courses or piles of textbooks - we need to immerse ourselves (and our children) in the concepts of data literacy as soon as possible. The more comfortable we are with the numbers, the questions, the logic, the critical thinking - the more commonplace will data literacy become.

I say start young!

The age you are now is the best time to start.

I'm working with my 8 year old granddaughters on Creative Writing. Hey that's not Data Literacy? Yeah it is. In order to write you have to write a million questions first. Where is the Narwhal family going to live? Do they have any relatives in the town? What will daddy Narwhals job be?

Curiosity is a critical key to Data Literacy. Gotta learn to ask questions, more questions and then another question.

Point of my rambling is that Data Literacy is all around us if we tie the elements together. We don't have to say "Hey let me teach about data." Let's Montessori this stuff. Teach it where there interests already lay and work from there.

Hi all,

Some great podcasts there. If you're in marketing the Digital Marketing Podcast is good and often tackles a range of data issues (skills gap in data, metrics/measurement and the best tools to use): https://www.targetinternet.com/digital-marketing-podcasts/.

My organisation (and proud founding partner of the @DataLitProject - Chartered Institute of Marketing) offers a number of free webinars on the topic: https://exchange.cim.co.uk/webinar/? As we generate new webinars/content we'll add links to the forum/DataLitProject to share the content with everyone.

James  

Woman and Data?????

Have I got someone for y'all to check out. Here name is Cathy Hughe and she's literally traveling the world teaching others how to consume data (and oh by the way ... wine data.) https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathy-huyghe-332307/

Here is her blog site http://www.enolytics.com/enolytics101/

and here is a small snippet

Then there is Laura Madsen. https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauramadsen/

I first found out about Laura as a result of her books:

Her current work is focused on Data Quality and Data Governance. Her blog is: https://routetwentyfive.com/

Then there is my good friend Claudia Scott https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-scott/ who is the lead of the Qlik Center of Excellence at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and a 2019 Qlik Luminary. She is also focused on reaching young ladies in the Atlanta area to encourage data use and STEM in general.

No "manels" in my eyes when it comes to data that's for sure.

Hi all, I'm keen to kick start a data literacy drive in my organization but I'm not sure how to start this - what would anyone recommend based on their own experiences? How hard is it to get off the ground?

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