{"id":5123,"date":"2026-02-25T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/insights\/what-is-data-literacy"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:42:04","slug":"what-is-data-literacy","status":"publish","type":"knowledge_pt","link":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/insights\/what-is-data-literacy","title":{"rendered":"What is data literacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data literacy, also known in Dutch as data literacy, is the ability to find, understand, analyze and communicate data. It is a combination of skills, knowledge and tools needed to understand and effectively use data to solve problems and make decisions. <\/p>\n<p>In a world where data is becoming increasingly important for decision making and problem solving, data literacy is becoming an important issue for many organizations. When data literacy is up to par, your employees are able to gather, understand and analyze information from a variety of sources, and then use that information to make better decisions. <\/p>\n<p>Data literacy includes skills such as data analysis, statistics, data visualization and data interpretation. It also includes knowledge of data sources and formats, and an understanding of data limitations and potential biases in data. Attitudes such as curiosity, critical thinking and the ability to solve problems are also important for data literacy.  <\/p>\n<h3>Increase data literacy?<\/h3>\n<p>Our Accelerator &#8216;<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/versnellers\/vergroot-de-datageletterdheid-en-verklein-de-bi-kloof\">increase your organization&#8217;s data literacy &#038; reduce the BI gap<\/a><\/u> &#8216; helps you do just that. With a customized program, we increase data literacy within your organization. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data literacy is the ability to find, understand, analyze and be able to communicate data. It is a combination of skills, knowledge and tools needed to understand and effectively use data to solve problems and make decisions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","knowledge_type":[58],"knowledge_category":[],"class_list":["post-5123","knowledge_pt","type-knowledge_pt","status-publish","hentry","knowledge_type-simplified"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_pt\/5123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_pt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledge_pt"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledge_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_type?post=5123"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_category?post=5123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}