Data Literacy

We celebrate data literacy programs in organizations the way Victorian families celebrated pianos in their parlors. Everyone agrees they should be there. Everyone nods approvingly at their presence. But when it comes time to actually use them, most people would rather be anywhere else. The uncomfortable truth is that data literacy initiatives fail not because […]

The problem with gamification is that everyone knows what you’re doing. You’re not fooling anyone with your badges and progress bars. Adults can smell a gold star system from a mile away, and the instinct to roll their eyes is usually correct. Yet data literacy remains stubbornly important, and training people to think with data