Data Literacy

The Essential Language in the Digital Era

Sau Wai Law, Benny Yim

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Routledge
15 July 2025

Economics; Business strategy; Knowledge management; Business mathematics & systems; Data mining

Data has been called the ‘new oil’ of the 21st-century economy, yet knowledge of how to harness and comprehend data is lagging. This book presents a comprehensive guide for university students and business practitioners to acquire the core competencies to become data literate.

Data Literacy: The Essential Language in the Digital Era introduces a logical way to master the nature, features, characteristics, limitations, uses, and protection of data, as well as its legal, regulatory, and ethical concerns. The book helps readers to develop their data literacy skills, based on lessons learnt from the authors’ professional experience in the banking and education sectors, together with doctrinal and empirical findings from research and observation.

With a structured methodology for interpreting data, practical case studies, and useful exercises, this textbook is an essential guide and reference for students, practitioners, and scholars in any discipline, as well as policymakers and regulators from all over the world.

By: Sau Wai Law, Benny Yim
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9781032872551
ISBN 10: 1032872551
Pages: 372
Publication Date: 15 July 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1. Describing Data 2. Data and Information Technology 3. The Application of Data 4. Protecting and Regulating Data 5. Making Decisions with Data 6. Ethical Use of Data 7. Moving Forward — What’s Ahead of Us

Sau Wai Law (Samuel) is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Law at the University of Reading, UK. Benny Yim is the CEO of an asset management firm overseeing the functioning of the organisation, particularly IT and operations.