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Data Literacy

Achieving Higher Productivity for Citizens, Knowledge Workers, and Organizations

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Data Literacy

By: Peter Aiken, Todd Harbour
Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
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Do you know what a "PIDD" is? A PIDD is a Perpetual Involuntary Data Donor. Surveillance capitalists love PIDDs because PIDDs materially support the data extraction industry by unwittingly surrendering their personal information, paying for data transport and storage, and tolerating poor internet/technology performance.

Today, this quiet industry collects massive data about people to modify and control their societal behavior. Surveillance capitalists control behavior by exploiting people's low data literacy. Three things increase the magnitude of the challenge:

  1. Data volume continues faster than we can process.
  2. Poor data interchange costs drain citizen and organizational resources and productivity.
  3. Society's reliance on technologies has not materially addressed the gap.

Our Digital Civics Framework (DCF) presents a guide to increasing the data literacy of billions of citizens, or at least those connected to the internet. We outline the levels and types of data knowledge that society needs and propose exercises that will help citizens interact productively within a data-driven society. Unfortunately, far too many PIDDs allow surveillance capitalists to monitor their data. This type of monitoring comes at an expense to individuals, our communities, and society writ large. Completing this audiobook will equip listeners with a shared understanding of society and the role data plays in it.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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I have a read a number of books around Data Literacy, and have to say that this one is very different. While most books focus around data literacy in the professional world, this book talks about all perspectives. With the use of social media and web sites, understanding what is being done with your information is critical. I recommend this book to everyone.

This is an important topic for everyone!

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This is an exceptional book on a number of topics. Primarily, highlighting the deficiencies and global cultures around data literacy at the user level in nearly every age group, professional group, and demographic. One of the striking aspects of this book that stands out more than most is the representation of not only what the problems are, but also rational and realistic methods to overcome these issues to make everybody more data literate citizens of the world. As a data governance consultant I found this book to be quite enlightening. Many topics are covered - most of which are talked about in significant detail. The narrator has a great voice and cadence to her speaking. This calm demeanor made the book easy to listen to.

Overall, I would highly recommend this book to anybody in any organization who is looking for the rationale behind issues they are having within their data management, or lack of data management, and how to identify the way through that dilemma towards success
The overwhelming tones of data literacy in the book do not let you forget the focal points of the book.

I feel it is important to provide the Insight here that this book does not provide a silver bullet, an easy button, or any other quick fix scenarios. in fact, it is very clearly stated in numerous sections of the book about just how long creating properly data literate teams, individuals, organizations, and the public in general will be. It is important to state such things should anybody endeavor to tackle those at any level. In my experience of 20 plus years in data governance and other forms of data management practices I have never found anyone who was able to do this quickly. I liked that in this book it was clearly stated that it is an effort that requires much consideration and requirement planning up front.

It is clear that in the last 20 plus years since the dot-com boom human beings have generated extraordinary amounts of data faster than we've created the means to which we understand how to deal with that. it is also very clear that there are organizations that have leveraged and capitalized on this and due to this day. I like the undertone of this book which is to educate everybody to be data literate so that, on the whole, we all can affect this leveraged capitalistic approach to our private information. To be more informed and better educated is to have a great defense. As with any book worth reading, this book brings to mind more questions than the answers, but I am okay with that because the questions are going to help me to do my job better and help people, organizations and the world become me data literate.

Exactly what we need right now a couple years ago!

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I'm not a partaker of audiobooks, but I made an exception for this one, having received a preview code from the author.

I went in with some vague understanding of data literacy and its applicability to my professional role as a Data Governance Officer. I came out with an understanding of how data literacy applies to my daughter, to me as a consumer, and my responsibility as someone that works with data every day.

I, like most people, struggled with the semantic dichotomy of literate/illiterate, so the spectrum of literacy used in the book will help me garner enthusiasm to those who may also be resistant. The delineation of skills necessary for each level of data literacy will be incredibly helpful in constructing a data literacy plan for my company and my family. I appreciated the practical, real-world examples that were shared. I look forward to getting a physical copy so I can use it as a reference in the next months.

Thanks for the comprehensive treatment of the topic.

It expanded my understanding of data literacy

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