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Tri-Valley’s Morrison and Sundeen receive literacy credential Times Report Crookston Times     Tara Morrison, Program Design Manager, and Tracey Sundeen, Assistant Director of Program Operations, were recognized at the National Head Start Association Scholar- ships and Awards Event April 21 for obtaining their Data Literacy Credential. The Data Literacy Credential is offered through the National Head Start Association in partnership with Acorn Evaluation. It is a brand-new opportunity that...

SAS has launched a course designed to teach K–12 educators new strategies for understanding and communicating data to students. SAS also created a set of separate resources for K–12 educators “aimed at helping digital native students also become data natives as well.”

Data overload hits us every day - some data true, some false, some useful, some not. It's a data world and there's no going back. SAS has anno...

New CEO To Launch Event Exploring How Data Will Drive Better Outcomes Globally LONDON, April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Tableau, the worlds leading analytics platform, today announced that Tableau President and CEO Mark Nelson will make his European event debut at Tableau Live Europe, taking place virtually on May 6, 2021. Nelson took the reins at Tableau in March, and will open the event which will delve into global issues and ways that organisations can drive better outcomes with data. Tableau ...

Virginia Tech Academy of Data Science and the Northern Virginia Technology Council Announce Data Science Lecture Series Share Article New series showcases how data science impacts business operations, government policy and consumers. “The NVTC and the Academy of Data Science share a common interest in applying insights derived from data science explorations to solve today’s challenges and benefit industries, communities, and the world at large,” said Ronald D. Fricker, interim dean of the...

Numbers Lit! Data Literacy and Fake News Posted on: March 17, 2021 Dr. Lesley S. J. Farmer, California State University Long Beach, USA and author of the Routledge book, Fake News in Context “Wisconsin counted more votes than registered voters.” “Trump’s inaugural crowd was larger than Obama’s.” “The US has 6 million confirmed COVID-19 cases.” “The number of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has risen of the past ten years; it’s an epidemic!” Numbers a...

Credits: Image: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT Caption: This figure shows a network visualization of Twitter users appearing in the research. Color encodes community and nodes are sized by their degree of connectedness. Credits: Courtesy of the researchers Previous image Next image Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, charts and graphs have helped communicate information about infection rates, de...

From a Data Pilot to Covid response with Microsoft Excel Format What can a spreadsheet do? Or, better yet, what can 100s of people do with improved spreadsheet skills? From the moment IFRC started the Data Literacy program, we heard from people every day that we all need to collectively improve our data skills in the form of spreadsheet basics. Microsoft Excel is the top data tool that Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers and staff use. Time and time again – people asked for brief to extensive t...

NBB to migrate its SWIFT system to AWS cloud MANAMA, February 9, 2021 The National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) Group has partnered with Allied Engineering Group (AEG), one of the largest worldwide SWIFT service bureaus, to migrate the bank’s international remittance system (SWIFT) to Amazon Web Service cloud (AWS). This marks as an important step towards transforming how NBB Group is positioning the cloud at the centre of their digital transformation roadmap.  This is in line with the Government...

The College of New Caledonia is one of 15 B.C. post-secondary institutions that will be offering "micro credential" courses to quickly train people for high-demand jobs.