Here at Encasa, Inc, we strive to empower data literacy and enable users to… Arrrrrg – if I EVER use the word empower again, please track me down and smack me up alongside the head. I’ve had enough of the “corporate speak” around data
Data is important. You need to be able to use data. You need to be able to call “bullshit” on data that doesn’t make sense. You need to be able to use data to prove things.
I want to help you get comfortable with data and some of the tools.
You might be scared of data. Actually, it’s probably math you’re afraid of.
Here at Encasa, Inc, we strive to empower data literacy and enable users to…
Arrrrrg – if I EVER use the word empower again, please track me down and smack me up alongside the head.
I’ve had enough of the “corporate speak” around data.
Data is important. You need to be able to use data. You need to be able to call “bullshit” on data that doesn’t make sense. You need to be able to use data to prove things.
I want to help you get comfortable with data and some of the tools.
You might be scared of data. Actually, it’s probably math you’re afraid of.
Data is not your 8th-grade algebra class. Maybe you had a math teacher who was only there because he got summers off. Maybe you missed a critical concept, which messed you up for all the rest of the math class. Maybe you just found all of it brain-numbingly boring. Maybe you didn’t see any reason to do word problems (weren’t they the worse??)
You can have math phobia, but I don’t want you to have data phobia.
I promise I will never ask about data leaving a train station heading west at 83 mph.
We’re going to explore some of the concepts in the world of data. Let’s play and learn some of the tools. I plan on sticking with tools that are free to use (I’m cheap).
Much as the Folk Music movement brought the music of the people to the people, and tried to make the world a better place, I’d like to see Folk Data make the world a better place. (Pete Seeger? Woody Guthrie? The labor union movement?)
So – will you come along with me in this data movement? No. Wait. Not a movement. A crusade! A crusade to bring data to the people.
Data to the People!
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