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# Data Literacies

Bhargava, Rahul, Erica Deahl, Emmanuel Letouzé, Amanda Noonan, David Sangokoya, and Nathalie Shoup. “Beyond Data Literacy: Reinventing Community Engagement and Empowerment in the Age of Data.” Data-Pop Alliance, October 2015. <http://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Beyond-Data-Literacy-2015.pdf>.

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center. “Data 101 Toolkit.” WPRDC, October 2, 2018. <http://www.wprdc.org/news/data-101-toolkit/>.

“Civic Data Guides: Thinking Critically about Digital Public Records.” Georgia Institute of Technology.  <https://serve-learn-sustain.gatech.edu/civic-data-guides-thinking-critically-about-digital-public-records>.

Community Information Now. “What’s Needed for a Community to Be Good at Using Data.”  <http://cinow.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Whats-Needed-for-a-Community-to-be-Good-at-Using-Data-20160810.pdf>.

“Creating Data Literate Students.”  <http://datalit.sites.uofmhosting.net/>.

Crusoe, David. “Data Literacy Defined pro Populo: To Read This Article, Please Provide a Little Information.” The Journal of Community Informatics 12, no. 3 (October 8, 2016). <http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1290>.

EU Science Hub. “DigComp - Digital Competence Framework for Citizens.” EU Science Hub, June 10, 2015. <https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/digcomp>.

Library Carpentry.  <https://librarycarpentry.github.io/lessons/>.

Matthews, Paul. “Data Literacy Conceptions, Community Capabilities.” The Journal of Community Informatics 12, no. 3 (October 22, 2016). <http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1348>.

“We’re Convening a Data Literacy Consortium.” FabRiders (blog), February 12, 2019. <https://www.fabriders.net/data-literacy-consortium/>.“

Youth Data Literacy: Exploring Data Worlds at the Public Library.” <http://www.youthdataliteracy.info/>.


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