Saturday, September 15, 2012

Become Data Literate in 3 Simple Steps - The Data Journalism Handbook

While we’re on the topic of data quality and journalism…

Just as literacy refers to “the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently and think critically about printed material” data-literacy is the ability to consume for knowledge, produce coherently and think critically about data. Data literacy includes statistical literacy but also understanding how to work with large data sets, how they were produced, how to connect various data sets and how to interpret them.

Become Data Literate in 3 Simple Steps - The Data Journalism Handbook

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