Data literacy is overrated

Michiko Wolcott
4 min readMar 4, 2024

OK, I realize this is a bit click-bait-ish. But bear with me here.

During a recent conversation with an analytics practitioner about a variety of organizational topics, I was asked about data literacy. I responded by saying it was overrated.

As you might imagine, this was met with a look of surprise.

Data literacy is not designed to solve the…

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Michiko Wolcott

Michiko is the managing partner and principal consultant of Msight Analytics, a management consulting firm focused on data and analytics. msightanalytics.com