In this 'Meet the Gurus' discussion, you get to hear from Dave Langer about how data literacy makes everything better...

• Why a small set of simple techniques delivers most of the value in business analytics
• The two questions that matter most: is it working, and why is it working
• Turning qualitative reads of a line chart into quantitative judgments
• Measuring KPIs and metrics over time as the pattern behind nearly every business question
• Vetting data sources, from IT-blessed systems to unofficial "spread marts"
• The four tool buckets: Excel, data visualization, SQL, and R or Python
• Why business domain knowledge is the piece no tool or algorithm replaces
• How Excel bec ...