Introduction: Your guide to data fluency
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza (17th century Philosopher)
Understanding comes through communication.
Ralph C. Smedley (founder of Toastmasters International)
What you’ll learn
In this short introduction, we first clarify the need for this book. We then define the notion of data fluency and its key elements, and we outline the main objectives of the book, as well as its approach and overall structure. You will also learn how each chapter is organised in terms of recurring text elements.
If you are reading this, then you have already realised how crucial it is for everyone today to understand data and how it ...
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