LibGuides: Data literacy: Home

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Overview

An overview of statistics and data (you can zoom in by opening the file included below):

Resources for improving data literacy

Harvard Business School: Data literacy
This site provides "an overview of data literacy, including the key concepts you should learn to better position yourself for success in an increasingly data-driven world." Read about data analysis, data wrangling, data visualization, the data ecosystem, and data governance.
Coursera: Data literacy, by JHU
In this free online course by Johns Hopkins University, you'll learn the fundamentals of interpreting data.

Descriptive statistics cheat sheet
This overview of statistical graphs and terms is provided by DataCamp, an online group that teaches data literacy skills. Limited free access to other features on their site.
Statistics overview - from MIT
This statistics overview document covers additional topics in statistics, including: standard deviation, p-values, and standard error. From MIT's open and public courseware.
Public Library Association: Data Literacy
"What is it? Why is it important to libraries? How can libraries promote data literacy?" -- This powerpoint presentation provides a general overview and introduction of data literacy.

In this Khan Academy YouTube video, you'll learn some of the basic concepts in statistics. This video is part of a playlist, so if you want to learn more, you can watch the subsequent videos with additional statistics content.