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The Data Skills Lab is a collection of hands-on activities designed to enhance your data literacy and data-informed decision-making skills. Each activity provides a practical, real-world scenario where you can learn essential skills, from data interpretation and visualization to bias detection, data cleaning, and even basic predictive modeling. Whether you’re a beginner seeking foundational data knowledge or a professional looking to sharpen your analytical abilities, the Data Skills Lab offers a range of exercises tailored to various skill levels and business contexts.
Learn how to identify flawed business questions and reframe them into specific, data-driven, and actionable inquiries. This interactive exercise will guide you through systemic thinking techniques to ensure you're asking the right questions that lead to better decisions.
View ActivityPractice making sense of and analyzing various AI outputs as a consumer of AI, including evaluating its trustworthiness and questioning its broader risks and impacts.
View ActivityDevelop your data literacy skills through real-world business scenarios. Practice evaluating data quality, interpreting insights, spotting biases, and making informed decisions to solve business challenges.
View ActivitySharpen your analytical thinking by tackling business problems that require evaluating data representativeness, distinguishing causation from correlation, and assessing decision risks.
View ActivityPractice diagnosing real-world data culture challenges by identifying which of the three key levers (Beliefs, Norms, or Reinforcements) is missing in various workplace scenarios. You'll practice spotting hidden barriers, propose your own solutions, and get immediate feedback and sample tactics.
View ActivityLearn how to transform vague challenges into powerful, actionable questions using the QUESTION framework. You'll practice crafting specific inquiries that drive clear, informed decision-making.
View ActivityAnalyze retail sales data over time to identify key trends, seasonal patterns, and fluctuations, helping them make informed business recommendations.
View ActivityPrioritize business initiatives by evaluating their potential impact and feasibility. Work through structured assessments to make strategic, data-informed funding decisions.
View ActivityTurn raw survey data into a compelling, stakeholder-ready narrative. This exercise teaches you to extract key insights, frame a clear storyline, and present actionable recommendations.
View ActivityLearn how to transform vague business inquiries into specific, actionable data questions. This activity walks you through a structured four-step process to bridge the gap between business needs and data insights.
View ActivityTest your sensemaking skills with 10 interactive scenarios that challenge how you interpret, connect, and communicate data insights.
View ActivityUse a five-step framework, this activity guides you through choosing a focus area, mapping processes, spotting pain points, checking data availability, and prioritizing the best opportunities for impact.
View ActivityStrengthen your critical data literacy by identifying common visualization pitfalls. In this interactive challenge, you'll spot misleading charts, uncover how they distort information, and learn techniques for creating and interpreting honest, accurate visuals.
View ActivityBroaden your understanding of what "data" really includes. In this quick, interactive activity, you'll classify statements as quantitative data, qualitative data, assumptions, or noise—and discover why it matters for making better decisions.
View ActivityStrengthen your data literacy by interpreting a simple business dashboard. Identify what’s going well, spot areas needing attention, and learn how to ask smarter questions about what the data does—and doesn't—show you.
View ActivityPractice spotting clear, unclear, and misleading business questions. In this quick activity, you'll sharpen your ability to craft better, more specific questions that lead to stronger data collection and decision-making.
View ActivityBuild essential statistical literacy by interpreting real-world data scenarios. This activity helps you spot misleading statistics, understand limitations, and develop stronger, evidence-based conclusions from numbers and charts.
View ActivityLearn to critically assess statistical language using the CLEAR framework. In this interactive activity, you'll evaluate real-world claims for causality, association, evidence strength, and measurability to sharpen your decision-making skills.
View ActivityExplore how online reviews can be misleading—even when they look impressive. In this activity, kids learn to question what they see and think critically about the data behind the stars.
View ActivityIn this hands-on activity, kids test how data changes with more trials. It's a fun way to understand probability, fairness, and why collecting more data can lead to better conclusions.
View ActivityAn interactive, gamified simulation that places participants in a high-stakes decision-making scenario. Designed to build data interpretation, bias detection, and insight-to-action skills, this decision war game is ideal for training or workshop use.
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