Author name: Dr. Asta von Schröder

https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5852-771X As a academic staff at the DAI, my main responsibility for WiNoDa lies is the creation of self-study courses on discipline-specific data literacy. Hands-on and interactive - my goal is: less technical jargon, more “aha” effect. Because we are all working with data! Follow me for more on Mastodon: https://fedihum.org/@AvSchroeder

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Why do we even need data literacy?

In order to compare or analyze poems data sets, they need to be put into a structure. There are various ways to do this: a series of bullet points under […]

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What is this “data literacy” anyway?

This question can hardly be answered in one sentence.In English, we speak of “data literacy”, i.e. the ability to read and write data.If the alphabet enables us to read and

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Hello World!

When someone asks me what I currently do for a living, I answer: I mainly create eLearning materials for a data competence center.At this point, my counterpart’s eyes glaze over