Build Your Data Literacy

Learn to interpret, explore, and communicate effectively with data.

• Understand the importance of data literacy and how to work effectively with data.
• Learn how to recognize good data and restructure data when needed.
• Learn how different variable types impact fields of data.
• Learn to explore large trends in data and see the details behind those trends.
• Learn about data distributions and how to graphically represent them.
• Explore variations to make informed comparisons between datasets.
• Learn the concepts of correlation and regression to better analyze data.

• Data Literacy Basics
• Understand Data Literacy
• Explore Data by Asking Good Questions
• Learn Data Fundamentals
• Well-Structured Data
• Identify Data Characteristics
• Learn How Data Is Organized
• Restructure Data
• Variables and Field Types
• Discover Variables and Field Types
• View Variables in Visualizations
• Aggregation and Granularity
• Explore Aggregation
• Explore Granularity
• Data Distributions
• Learn How to Show Distributions of Discrete Variables
• Use Histograms to Show Distributions of Continuous Variables
• Use Box Plots to Show Distributions of Continuous Variables
• Variation for Data Comparisons
• Measure Variance
• Estimate Probability
• Make Inferences
• Correlation and Regression
• Examine Correlation in Data
• Discover Relationships Using Linear Regression