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Be Data Literate Know What to Know A Reaction Paper

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  This article highlighted the importance of being information literate. It also presents challenges as a consequence when you become information literate. But being information literate will not suffice, one must still learn how to use and interpret data. The article also stated that information technology has provided the means of collection of data, but in order for data to be converted into information it must be organizes for the task, directed to specific performance and is applied to a decision. Many managers don't know what information they need and how to get that information.
  The first challenge presented is that the organization should make them information literate. These data users have to decide what data to use and how to use it. However information business will depend on its availability and in what form it is available. In addition to that, business nowadays needs data that goes on outside of it, that is data from the outside that can be used for decision making. Consequently, the second challenge is how to use this information to make decision making effective...