In times of crisis, a great deal of information and data is gathered, and teams work tirelessly to analyze it. While effective analysis should be a priority, it is just as important that all the data and information we receive is accurate. A large number of natural disasters and crises occur around the world. In these […]
Business Glossaries and Data Dictionaries: What’s the Difference and Why Should I Care?
Both business glossaries and data dictionaries sound like something you’d find sitting on the reference shelf of a library. The terms are basically interchangeable, right? Wrong! While they share some similarities, both the purpose and the content of these two documents differ substantially, and understanding those differences is the key to ensuring that business owners […]
Understanding and Building Data Literacy Skills
Literacy is, broadly speaking, the ability to understand others’ ideas and communicate one’s own. When considering specific types of literacy, that same core principle remains. In this way, data literacy can be defined as the ability to understand information presented through data and to meaningfully communicate ideas using that information. In other words, a data […]
