Data Literacy
Module 1: Reading Data Without Fear
1.5 Wrap-up

1.5 Module 1 Wrap-up

Time: ~15 minutes

What You'll Learn

  • Review of all critical thinking skills from Module 1
  • Your personal data literacy checklist
  • How Module 1 skills connect to Module 2's AI workflows
  • Preparation for using AI as your data analyst

Key Concepts

This lesson pulls everything together. You now have a critical thinking toolkit that includes:

  1. Chart literacy -- You can read any visualization and spot when it's misleading
  2. Metric evaluation -- You know the difference between numbers that matter and numbers that just look good
  3. BS detection -- You can identify cherry-picking, survivorship bias, correlation-causation confusion, and aggregation tricks

Claude will walk you through a review exercise where you apply all three skills to a realistic scenario, then help you build a personal checklist you can use whenever you encounter data at work.

What's Next

Module 2 takes everything you've learned and adds AI power. Now that you can evaluate data critically, you're ready to:

  • Have AI analyze messy spreadsheets for you
  • Build visualizations that are honest and effective
  • Break down dense reports in minutes instead of hours
  • Turn raw numbers into narratives people actually read
  • Create a reusable workflow for recurring analysis

How to Start

Open Claude Desktop and say:

start lesson 1.5

When you're ready for Module 2, say:

start lesson 2.1

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