Texas Data Literacy Program

Data literate organizations and their employees make better informed decisions than their less literate counterparts, leading to improved business outcomes. The Texas Data Literacy Program aims to provide learning opportunities to help data users improve their data competency, regardless of their role within their organization.

The Texas Data Literacy Resource Guide (PDF, 311 KB) provides a menu of publicly available resources, such as publications, documents, and videos, on topics related to data management, data sharing, and open data.

The Texas Data Literacy Program learning series consists of courses related to different topics around data, including data management, data sharing, and data analytics. Videos of the courses can be found on DIR's YouTube channel, in the Texas Data Literacy Program playlist.

Texas Data Literacy Program - YouTube 

Courses planned for Data Literacy Level 1: Foundations

• Introduction to Data Literacy
• History of Data Management and the Office of the Chief Data Officer
• Data Governance and the Data Lifecycle
• Data Quality
• Data Privacy and Ethics 
• Data Security
• Data Sharing

Data Management Officers and their staff who wish to work towards a certificate from DIR in Data Literacy Foundations by completing all courses in the Level 1: Foundations track should contact the Office of the Chief Data Officer at [email protected].