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Data literacy and data fluency

Published on March 31, 2025   25 min

A selection of talks on Technology & Operations

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My name is Jennifer Stirrup. I've been a practitioner in All Things Data for over two decades now. I'm passionate about ensuring that data becomes a part of everyone's skill set. I have postgraduate degrees in artificial intelligence and I also hold an MBA. I'm very excited to be here today to take you through these important topics of data literacy and data fluency.
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Welcome to this presentation where we will discuss an overview of the concepts of data literacy and data fluency. Both of these items together are very important in business nowadays where we aim to be as data-driven as possible. We'll also look through some real-world examples in order to help you to understand the importance and how to implement them in terms of their operation. Becoming fluent with data is not a solo journey, so we will discuss some of the people issues around this as well. Ultimately, the outcome is that businesses must ensure that their workforce also builds digital skills and capabilities. We can't simply focus only on the technology. We have to think about the data as well. The ambition is to have universal data literacy and data fluency is an important part of that.
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Let's have a look at data fluency. We'll look at defining what it is, We'll also then dive in to look at it in more detail and how it contrasts with data literacy. We'll have a look at a case study as well, and then we will look at a way forward focusing on businesses specifically. What is data fluency?

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