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Why your workforce needs data literacy

Tableau

This puts data at the heart of decision making across departments and roles and doesn’t restrict innovation to just one function. Organizations can also instill a data culture by promoting data literacy—because in order for employees to participate in a data culture, they first need to speak the language of data. Source: Accenture.

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Bridging the data literacy gap between academia and the workforce

Tableau

Enterprises are increasingly becoming data-driven—and requiring data literacy skills for employees in every part of the organization. We commissioned research by Forrester Consulting to help better understand the data literacy gap. The study shows that the data literacy gap is growing. Bridging the data literacy gap.

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A successful path to data literacy and analytics maturity for all

Tableau

For business leaders, this meant an organizational shift toward more data-driven jobs and a heightened focus on data skills—a transition that revealed the widespread lack of data skills and data literacy. Once meant for data scientists and analysts, data literacy is now a requirement for all—from business leaders to front-line workers.

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A successful path to data literacy and analytics maturity for all

Tableau

For business leaders, this meant an organizational shift toward more data-driven jobs and a heightened focus on data skills—a transition that revealed the widespread lack of data skills and data literacy. Once meant for data scientists and analysts, data literacy is now a requirement for all—from business leaders to front-line workers.

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. This week, nearly a year after first beginning to work with Room to Read, we’re proud to be taking part in promoting Literacy Day.

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How data communities help solve the data literacy gap

Tableau

According to a recently released Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Tableau about data literacy and culture in global enterprises, organizations that have a companywide mandate to their data literacy training have higher employee satisfaction levels with training offerings than those that focus at the team or department level.

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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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When directors understand their role in stewarding and growing resources, keeping track of that progress becomes a lot more interesting. The treasurer and the finance committee also have important roles to play. Financial literacy workshops. Yes, you can get people to put down their phones and pay attention.

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