Data Literacy, Citizen Analysis, and the Shift to a Data‑Enabled Culture I’ve never been fond of the phrase data‑driven. It can imply that people should surrender the wheel to whatever the chart says. I prefer data‑enabled: a culture where evidence is visible, disputable, and useful—where humans steer and data is the headlight, not the driver. That shift doesn’t start with a platform; it starts with literacy, and it grows when more people can do a little analysis for themselves.

Enabling a #CitizenData program requires not just developing an understanding of operational organizations becoming #DataProductOwners, but of raising the #DataLiteracy levels of your organization so that #CitizenDataAnalysts can make use of the data you're providing them. Building data literacy…