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Why data literacy matters

2 Top Skills

‘Analytical Reasoning’ and ‘Business Analysis’ named as skills that companies need most in 2020.

 

- LinkedIn

71%

of data-driven business leaders believe more people across their organisations will need access to data and the ability to analyse it.

 

- YouGov

50%

of organizations lack sufficient data literacy skills to achieve business value.

 

- Gartner

79%

of business leaders in data-driven organizations say data skills are a top priority, and are continuing or increasing spend on training.

 

- YouGov

 

Learn from others just how important data skills can be for you

 

Vanessa Lam

Vanessa Lam

Candidate for Masters of Computer and Information Technology, University of Pennsylvania

Data literacy is super valuable for job applications, research positions, or even understanding what’s going on in the news.

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Klaus Shultz

Klaus Schulte

Professor of Controlling at the University of Applied Sciences in Münster, Tableau Zen Master

I consider the responsible handling and clear presentation of data to be a core competency for students and a necessary foundation for all in our digital world

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Marian

Marian Eerens

Commercial Operation Analyst, Tableau User Group Leader

If you’re not investing in building out data skills within your workforce, you are going to fall behind.

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Simon

Simon Beaumont

Director of Business Intelligence Centre of Excellence at JLL, Tableau Zen Master

We have an opportunity to influence people as they are more engaged with data now, than they have ever been before.

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“Data skills have already played a huge role in my career. I graduated my undergrad degree without any data knowledge at all, and had to learn it all in the first two years after graduation. If I had learned more data while I was in school, those years would have been a lot more productive and a lot less about Googling! After learning those skills, I was able to start the Business Intelligence Department at my company, helping promote data literacy and data education across our organization. Businesses and researchers make a lot of decisions based on data, so taking the time to learn the foundations of data literacy will pay off in the long run! Data literacy is super valuable for job applications, research positions, or even understanding what’s going on in the news. Business jobs are increasingly asking for data skills, and even testing for them in technical interviews. I’m now back at graduate school to further my data and technical education so that I can continue spreading data literacy and responsible data use across all organizations that I am a part of! I hope that enabling others’ data literacy will always be a core part of my job.”

- Vanessa Lam

Candidate for Masters of Computer and Information Technology, University of Pennsylvania

"As the Professor of Controlling at the University of Applied Sciences in Münster, I consider the responsible handling and clear presentation of data to be a core competency for students and a necessary foundation in our digital world - which is why Tableau has been part of the curriculum for several years. Thanks to Tableau’s comprehensive concept and mentality of openness to new users who are willing to learn, the platform has now developed a wide reach, especially with Tableau Public. What YouTube is to videos and Instagram is to images, Tableau Public is to the presentation of data. When we look out into the world, one can sometimes get the impression that data and facts no longer play the role they should have. You can't rate a platform like Tableau Public highly enough, a place on which people can visualize data in different ways in order to see and understand it better."

- Klaus Schulte

Professor of Controlling at the University of Applied Sciences in Münster, Tableau Zen Master

“Being able to not only ‘work’ with data but also have the proper skillset to communicate so that others are empowered to make better decisions faster - those skills are going to become more relevant as businesses continue to accumulate massive amounts of data. If you’re not investing in building out those competencies within your workforce, you are going to fall behind. I believe data skills were always important, but the pandemic has made it more clear why they are so critical when you are looking to data to inform your decision making and build out trust and transparency. I certainly see more data curiosity in my immediate circle because of the challenge we find ourselves in, and how it’s really impacting everyone in our community. People need a framework to not only better understand where we are at right now but also get a sense of what’s potentially waiting for us around the corner.

Marian Eerens

Commercial Operation Analyst, Tableau User Group Leader

“Data Literacy is critical if we are going to truly democratise data and ensure it is accessible to all. Going forward we have to embed data literacy in our organisation DNA so it is part of not only core skills development but also ingrained in our organization values and behaviours. Throughout my career, my data skills have shifted my approach to leadership, both for my analysts and my stakeholders / consumers. I now view data skills as an enabling delivery that BI must lead, and deliver, in partnership with the business. Our data roles must expand to enablement and culture, looking beyond just product delivery and increasingly focusing on the value that dashboards deliver and how we empower people to use them. I have found that people have become more challenging of data, not just accepting it on face value - this has been inspiring, but also means there is an increasing mistrust of data and this has to be recognised as a potential barrier to adoption of data in the future, but also an opportunity to influence people as people are more engaged now than they ever have been.”

- Simon Beaumont

Director of Business Intelligence Centre of Excellence at JLL, Tableau Zen Master

Develop your data skills today

Tableau is helping people of all ages and skill levels become more data literate. Here’s how we can help you:

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Free data skills eLearning modules that you can take at your own pace.

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Data for Kids

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Develop your data skills today

Tableau is helping people of all ages and skill levels become more data literate. Here’s how we can help you:

Free courses

Free data skills eLearning modules that you can take at your own pace.

Start learning

Free licenses

Free one-year Tableau licenses to students at accredited academic institutions.

Get License

Data for Kids

Start your kids on a data adventure with engaging activities, fun visualisations, and inspiring tips.

Learn More