While Qlik was waking up to data literacy, Tableau wants you to know it's been there all the time. Just look over at Tableau Public. That free platform has served more than 300,000 authors creating over 10,000 new visualization per week. Last … [Continue reading] about Who needs data literacy when you’ve got data pictures? / Tableau
Cities / Too much “smart” can make you dumb
Richard Sennett's new book, Buildings and Dwellings, has a new variety of ambivalence about so-called "smart cities." It's one I hadn't heard. From the Los Angeles Review of Books' review: Referring to smart cities that use … [Continue reading] about Cities / Too much “smart” can make you dumb
Dave Wells on data literacy
Few people in the data industry today are better qualified to opine on data literacy than Dave Wells. He's had a decades-long career with data, including TDWI education director for eight years, now the education director at eLearningCurve, … [Continue reading] about Dave Wells on data literacy
Jordan Morrow sees data literacy taking off at Qlik
Qlik's director of data literacy Jordan Morrow saw validation of his program soon after he took the job: His new series of online modules, he reports, rose to four of the top 10 downloads within the first couple of months. None of the modules … [Continue reading] about Jordan Morrow sees data literacy taking off at Qlik
Qlik: serious about data literacy
Qlik could have forgotten the tired slogans — such as "data is the new currency" — at the recent Qlik Qonnections and gone straight for the what makes Qlik stand out. That starts with their tastiest, chewiest morsel: their apparently … [Continue reading] about Qlik: serious about data literacy