Why everyone in a business needs to be data literate

Open Data Institute Podcasts

In the first episode of the second season of the Open Data Institute’s Inside Business podcast - the ODI’s Learning and Business Development Director, Stuart Coleman, is joined by two self confessed data evangelists, both of whom use storytelling to create a ‘culture’ of data in organisations. One even says that business leaders who don’t understand the importance of data literacy might as well “pack their bags and leave their desks”. Stuart Coleman, the ODI’s Learning and Business Development Director (host) Di Mayze, Global Head of Data and AI at WPP, a creative transformation business (guest) Paul French, former Director of Business Intelligence, Reporting and Visualisation at the Nationwide Building Society (guest). USEFUL LINKS The ODI website: https://theodi.org/ Podcast webpage on the ODI website: https://theodi.org/article/inside-business-podcast-why-everyone-in-a-business-needs-to-be-data-literate/ The ODI’s position on data literacy (blog): https://theodi.org/article/data-literacy-what-is-it-and-how-do-we-address-it-at-odi/ ODI’s data literacy resources: https://theodi.org/article/introducing-the-data-literacy-programme/