What is data culture?

Introduction to Data Culture

Joanne Xiong

Content Developer, DataCamp

Improve your fitness plan

               

• Goal: improve fitness plan
• Data provided by personal fitness tracker:
  • Number of steps you take
  • Calories you burn
  • Amount of time you spend exercising
• Problem: no concrete plan to achieve the goal

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Improve your fitness plan cont.

• Analyze your available data
• Understand the messages conveyed
• Communicate with others
• From HAVING data to USING data

               

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Data culture in a nutshell

• COLLECTIVE behavior and mindset within an organization toward using data
• Applies to ALL industries and ALL stakeholders
  • Regardless of technical acumen (e.g. HRs)
  • Business sizes are irrelevant

Key components of data culture (1)

               

• Making data-driven decisions
  • Evaluate strategy
  • Identify opportunities
  • Measure success
  • Evidence over intuition or opinion

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Key components of data culture (2)

               

• Prioritizing data literacy
  • Be able to read, interpret, and analyze data
  • Requires long-term commitment
  • Organizational-wide effort!

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Key components of data culture (3)

               

• Encouraging continuous experimentation and development
  • Test innovative ideas
  • Learn from failures
  • Quickly adapt to changes
  • Helps evaluate innovative ideas' effectiveness
  • Helps identify improvement areas

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Data culture benefits

Benefits:

• Enhanced decision-making
• Improved operations
• Achieved business goals

Let's practice!

Introduction to Data Culture