Data Literacy : Definition, Importance and scope Content Writer: Dr. Anubhuti Yadav Subject Name: Library and Information Science Paper Name : Media and Information Literacy ModuleTitle: Data literacy: the concept, importance and finding data Module Id: LIS/MIL Objectives: To understand the concept of data Literacy and how it is relevant link in Media and Information Literacy To appreciate the importance of Data Literacy in the lives of students and teachers To explore how to access data Keywords: Data Literacy, Data driven stories, data intensive research
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Data Literacy : Definition, Importance and scope
Content Writer: Dr. Anubhuti Yadav
Subject Name: Library and Information Science
Paper Name : Media and Information Literacy
ModuleTitle: Data literacy: the concept, importance and finding data
Module Id: LIS/MIL
Objectives:
To understand the concept of data Literacy and how it is relevant link in Media and
Information Literacy
To appreciate the importance of Data Literacy in the lives of students and teachers
To explore how to access data
Keywords: Data Literacy, Data driven stories, data intensive research
Structure of Module
1 Introduction
2 Definition of Data Literacy
3 Importance of Data Literacy
4 How to access data/ Finding data
4.1 over view of data.gov.in
4.1.1 How to search data data.gov.in
4.1.2 How to create Visualisation/infographics on data.gov.in
4.2 About dataportal.org
4.3 Data Hub
4.4 Tricks for data search
5 Summary
1. INTRODUCTION
Data has always been a key concern for researchers, educationists, journalists, marketing
professionals, scientists and to all those who are involved in research across all professions. To study any
phenomenon, collection of data is central. In any research whether it is academic or applied most of the
resources during research are allocated for data collection. Since the sharing till few years back was not
very prevalent in the absence of the right medium, there used to be lot of duplication even in data
collection. Data collected for one study was limited to that study and if in case someone wanted to conduct
research on the similar topics the data collection had to be done afresh. This no doubt led to the wastage of
resources and time. Also data collected for one particular study could have been used for number of studies
and based on the data in hand researchers could have conceived some new projects that could have been
possible with the analysis of the same data. With the emergence of internet especially with the open data
movement, data now is available for the people to use reuse remix and redistribute. The online space is
inundated with lot of data. This offers another challenge that is how to sift the relevant, accurate and
authentic data. Keeping this in view a new concept has emerged called data literacy. Many countries have
introduced data literacy in their curriculum both in school as well as higher education level. Also this can
be integrated with other subjects to make it more relevant and contextual.
2. DEFINITION
The UNESCO MIL Curriculum and Competency Framework combines two distinct areas- media literacy
and information Literacy- under one umbrella term; Media and Information Literacy.
Figure 1 Source UNESCO MIL curriculum
The Data Literacy is subsumed under information Literacy as it deals with Defining and articulating
information needs, Locate and Access information, Access information, organize information, make ethical
use of information , communicate information, use ICT skills for information processing. According to
UNESCO MIL Curriculum Information is data that have been collected, processed and interpreted so that
they can be presented in a useable form.‘Information is data that have been processed into a form that is
meaningful to the recipient and is of real or perceived value in current or prospective actions or decisions’
(Davis and Olsen, 1984)
Since data is a piece of information according to Oxford Dictionary, it becomes a part of
Information Literacy. So the data is Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis ( Oxford
dictionary) and after the invent of computers its is The quantities, characters, or symbols on
which operations are performed by a computer, which may be stored and transmitted in the form of
electrical signals and recorded onmagnetic, optical, or mechanical recording media.
According to NSB 2005 data can be defined as “any information that can be stored in digital
form, including text numbers, images video or movies , audio software algorithm equations animation,