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Data Literacy Education: Why We Need More Than Technical Skills
Data literacy is becoming a civic skill—not just a professional one. Here, Danijela Markovic and Oskar Kärcher explore why data literacy education goes beyond coding and statistics to developing scientific, systems, computational, critical, creative, and ethical thinking.
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