How to Improve Your Data Literacy Skills

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How to Improve Your Data Literacy Skills

TL;DR Are you data literate? In todays data-driven world, data literacy is a crucial skill. Heres how you can develop it for yourself.

By @zacamos [ 6 Min read ]

Are you data literate? An easy way to tell is to ask yourself whether you know how to source, analyze, and share quantitative information. If you don’t, you should learn how.

Before you can become data literate, there are a few fundamentals you must understand...

On This Day

The Stock Market Crashed

The stock market crash known as Black Monday occurred, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping by over 22% in one day.

Poll Of the Week

With the New Ad-Revenue Sharing Program at X (Formerly Twitter), Would You Get Verified?

X (formerly Twitter) has initiated its "Ads Revenue Sharing" program, designed to share ad revenue with verified creators. The program, now available globally, is intended to retain top talent on the platform and has a budget of $5 million for the first round of creator payments.

18% Yes

39% No

7% I'm undecided

33% I don't have an X account

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