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Data Fluency

Master data fluency! Learn skills for individuals and organizations, understand behaviors, and build a data-fluent culture.

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Course Description

Data is everywhere, and in today's data-driven world, being data-fluent is a necessity, not only for individuals but for organizations overall. Data fluency isn't just about understanding data; it's about the ability to work with and use data effectively to make data-driven decisions. This exciting conceptual course will equip you with unearth best practices and essential skills required for data fluency mastery!

What is Data Fluency?

You’ll start by learning the meaning of data fluency and its difference with data literacy You’ll also learn about the importance of data fluency in today’s world. You will be introduced to a framework on how to achieve data fluency; at the individual but also organizational levels!

Data fluent behaviors

Next, you’ll discover the behaviors of data-fluent individuals along with the skills they utilize from the first step of identifying business problems with data up to communicating insights effectively for decision-making.

Data fluent organisations

You’ll finish by deep-diving into the elements of a data-fluent organization. You’ll discover the behaviors and habits of a data-fluent culture, and how to shape such culture. Lastly, you’ll learn how a strong ecosystem covering infrastructure, tools, and processes can enable organizational data fluency!
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  1. 1

    The Journey to Data Fluency

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    Embarking on a journey to data fluency! To begin the course, you’ll learn what data fluency is and how it differs from data literacy. You’ll also discover the outcomes of data fluency and the required elements to achieve data fluency at individual and organizational levels.

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    Understanding data fluency
    50 xp
    The elements of data fluency
    50 xp
    Data fluency versus literacy
    100 xp
    The outcomes of data fluency
    50 xp
    Discussions around data
    50 xp
    Actions with data
    100 xp
    Achieving data fluency
    50 xp
    A supportive data ecosystem
    50 xp
    Setting goals for data fluency
    100 xp
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    Data Fluent Individuals

    Individual data fluency encompasses the skills individuals need to have to effectively make data-driven decisions. In this chapter, you’ll learn how data-fluent individuals identify business problems with data, translate those problems into analytical questions, as well as how they work with data effectively, and communicate their findings to take action.

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    Solving business problems with data
    50 xp
    Identifying problems using KPIs
    50 xp
    KPI trees in action!
    50 xp
    Forming analytical questions
    100 xp
    Exploring and describing data
    50 xp
    Ensuring data quality
    50 xp
    Effectively working with data
    100 xp
    Leveraging analytical expertise
    50 xp
    Analytics solutions in action
    50 xp
    Collaboration best practices
    100 xp
    Interpreting and communicating results
    50 xp
    Practices for effective communication
    100 xp
    Solving a problem with data
    100 xp
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    Data Fluent Organization

    In this chapter, you’ll dive deeper into the various elements that shape organizational data fluency. You’ll learn the behaviors present in a data-fluent culture as well as the power of a strong data ecosystem that supports data fluency including the data infrastructure, tools, and lastly, the processes and organizational structure.

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    Cultivating a data-fluent culture
    50 xp
    Leaders promoting data-fluency
    100 xp
    Data habits in action!
    100 xp
    A robust data Infrastructure
    50 xp
    The elements enabling data infrastructure
    100 xp
    Data standards and governance practices
    100 xp
    Enabling data tools & technologies
    50 xp
    Benefits of BI tools
    50 xp
    Selecting the right tool
    100 xp
    Scalable processes & organization
    50 xp
    Implementing processes for data fluency
    100 xp
    Enabling the data ecosystem
    100 xp
    Wrap-up
    50 xp
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Collaborators

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Joe Franklin

Prerequisites

Introduction to Data Literacy
Konstantinos Kattidis HeadshotKonstantinos Kattidis

Data Analytics Lead

Konstantinos is a data analytics lead with over 9 years of experience in data and analytics. He worked in various industries, including automotive, logistics, and, most recently, e-commerce. He is passionate about enabling data-driven business decisions and creating value through data. In addition, he loves helping and inspiring other professionals to advance their data skills and careers. Outside of work, you will find him enjoying a workout at the gym or traveling to warm and sunny destinations.
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