Data Literacy

Data literacy is the ability to read, question and explain data. For an organization it means people at every level share that skill.

By teaching a shared way to simplify information, highlight what matters and explain it, then applying it in the reports and dashboards people use every day. We combine workshops with design and strategy work.

Yes. The Visual Storytelling for Government workshop runs four hours, as two sessions or one block, and teaches teams to define the insight for an executive, a minister or the public.

It should. Our Designing Explainable Decisions with AI workshop helps teams explain AI-assisted decisions clearly. We also teach your team to use AI in their own analysis, dashboard design and presentations.

A data literacy program is a planned way to build the skill across an organization: workshops for different levels, shared templates, and standards for how reports are written. We design programs that combine training with design and strategy work.

AI literacy is the ability to understand, question and explain how AI tools and AI-assisted decisions work. It sits alongside data literacy, and our explainable AI workshop teaches teams to explain AI-assisted decisions clearly.

We run a design process built around people: designers with more than ten years of dashboard experience, and project managers who run every engagement. We use AI inside that process, for analysis, visualization and storytelling, to move faster. What the data says, and how it looks, stays with our team.

Yes. We have facilitated workshops in Australia, the United States, the Middle East and Europe, and we run remote sessions on Zoom or Teams for any time zone.

Because decisions depend on people reading data correctly. When leaders cannot read a chart or question a number, good analysis goes unused and weak numbers go unchallenged. It matters more as AI-assisted decisions become common.

Reading a chart, asking what is behind a number, spotting what is missing, explaining a finding in plain language, and using the data to decide. Analysts add design and storytelling. Those are the four levels above plus the design skills our workshops teach.

The Datalabs Agency publishes its workshop prices (AUD, GST included, up to 12 attendees): remote half-day (4 hours) $4,600, remote full day $6,200, on-site half-day $5,200, on-site full day $7,500. Extra attendees up to 20 are $250 each per day, and larger groups are split into cohorts. Ask for a quote with your team size and dates.

Otto Ottinger is the founder and Managing Director of The Datalabs Agency. He worked at National Geographic before founding the agency, and he leads the workshops himself. Read more about Otto Ottinger.