Data Literacy

Data is all around us: an infographic shared on social media, statistics in the news, information from your textbook.

Literacy is having the skills to understand the information provided by data and to be able to think critically about it. It is being able to know the strengths and weaknesses of the data, the biases, and the reliability of the data.

Data literacy is the ability to read, understand, create and communicate data as information.

Check out this video from John Green on Data and Infographics.

Data Resources

The Arda	U.S. Census Bureau
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics
Data.gov	U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
FRED	U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Gapminder	U.S. Department of Education
National Center for Education Statistics	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Open NASA	U.S. Geological Survey
Pew Research Center	World Health Organization
Social Explorer	The World Bank Open Data
UN Data	Local state/city government websites