Frameworks & Tools for Smarter, Faster, Human-Centered Data Work

This isn’t a generic resource library, it’s a curated system of frameworks, templates, and thinking tools designed to elevate how your organization asks questions, builds insight, and takes action. From better decision design to faster time-to-answer, from culture change to AI evaluation, each tool is built to solve a real-world friction point in the data journey.

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Visualization Selection Guide

A practical tool to help you choose the most effective chart or graph for your data. This helps ensure your visualizations communicate insights clearly and resonate with your audience.

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The Data Literacy Competency Framework

This interactive framework outlines the eight core competencies essential for data literacy across all organizational levels—from mindset to decision-making. Built for data consumers, it blends cognitive, analytical, and communication skills with a clear proficiency progression.

Data Literacy
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The Data Literacy Value Framework

A practical playbook for connecting data literacy to real business outcomes. This framework helps you define, measure, and communicate the value of data skills using the same principles that power value-based selling.

Data Literacy
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The Data-Informed Decision-Making Process

This comprehensive checklist leads you through a structured process, ensuring that every decision is backed by solid data, critical analysis, and the essential human element to ensure well-rounded decisions.

Decision-Making
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The DARE Change Framework

A modern model for driving mindset-led transformation in the age of data, AI, and uncertainty. DARE stands for Diagnose, Activate, Rewire, and Evolve—four iterative phases designed to surface hidden beliefs, shift thinking safely, embed new behaviors, and build long-term adaptability.

Data Literacy
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The PROMPT Framework

The PROMPT method provides a 7-step guide to engineering ethical, effective prompts that optimize your AI interactions.

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Effective Visualization Design

This checklist is a guide designed to help creators of visualizations validate their effectiveness and accessibility.

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Decoding Visualizations

This framework leads readers through a checklist to thoroughly evaluate key aspects of data visualizations, empowering individuals to interpret information accurately and avoid potential manipulation or misinterpretation.

Data Interpretation
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The Data Thinking Compass Model

This framework is designed to enhance data fluency by integrating cognitive and behavioral dimensions into data training. It provides insights into personal strengths and blind spots, fostering improved collaboration and more effective decision-making.

Data Interpretation Decision-Making
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AI Opportunity Evaluator

This guides you through assessing specific AI ideas based on a set of strategic and practical criteria. The tool scores and prioritizes potential AI opportunities.

AI
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The DataStory Framework

The DataStory framework provides communicators an adaptive framework for crafting resonant data stories tailored to diverse stakeholders and contexts.

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The Data Literacy Blueprint for Individuals

A practical guide to help individuals build critical skills in data literacy, ethics, and informed decision-making for personal empowerment in the digital age.

Data Literacy
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The CLEAR Framework

The CLEAR Framework is a tool that helps navigate the language of data, ensuring that our interpretations are as accurate as possible.

Data Interpretation
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The IMPACT Insight Evaluation Model

The IMPACT Insight Evaluation Model is a framework to assess insights across six dimensions: Integrity, Measurability, Persistence, Applicability, Currency, and Transformative Potential.

Data Interpretation
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The Holistic Decision Analysis Model

The Holistic Decision Analysis Model provides a structured, multi-stage framework designed to enhance decision-making by integrating data analysis, emotional awareness, and contextual understanding.

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The AI Opportunity Identification Framework

The AI Opportunity Identification Framework helps businesses identify, evaluate, and prioritize AI applications by aligning AI opportunities with core business challenges.

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Interactive Logic Model Builder

The tool helps you map your program's impact, outcomes, and activities in a clear, structured format—perfect for planning, communicating, or aligning strategy.

Decision-Making
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AI Decision Aid Tool

This tool guides you to the optimal AI support level—Assisted, Augmented, or Automated—based on your decision's frequency, risk, complexity, and oversight needs.

AI
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Decision Classification and Assessment

A structured framework for evaluating decisions across key dimensions like impact, risk, complexity, and stakeholder involvement to apply the right level of rigor and oversight.

Decision-Making
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The Influence Flywheel for Data Culture Change

This framework guides you through the six-stage Flywheel for shaping data culture—without needing formal authority. Learn how to listen deeply, deliver quick wins, and spark lasting behavior change across your organization.

Data Strategy
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The QUESTION Framework

A structured methodology for crafting purposeful, actionable questions. It guides users through a step-by-step process to clarify goals, explore context, and prioritize inquiries.

Decision-Making
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The AI Output Risk Scoring Tool

A structured tool to assess the reliability, fairness, and appropriateness of AI-generated outputs across four key risk categories to identify red flags and determine trust levels.

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The Time-to-Answer (TTA) Scorecard

This scorecard helps your team assess how quickly and efficiently you can go from a business question to a data-driven answer.

Decision-Making
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