Data Literacy

Most people can't tell a good chart from a bad one. That's the gap. Data literacy is the ability to read, understand, create, and communicate data as information, and it shows up in statistical reasoning, visualization interpretation, and asking better questions of any dataset you're handed. In the AI era, the bar is higher. You need to understand how training data shapes model behavior, how to evaluate AI-generated analytics, and how to spot the moment a data-driven conclusion is actually a hallucination wearing a number.