Data literacy

Working as M&E Coordinator, Data is really important to tracking the progress of activities and progress of indicator achievements of project as well as organization goals. Data Visualization which enable the audience to see data explanation or the storytelling of data easily. Develop the data visualization dashboard for KAPE organization.

Data is very important for me because I want to use it as a tool to understand and follow up on the changing of the world and my country. For example, following the inflation rate of a country in one period and comparing it to other countries. In addition to this, I intend to utilize data by finding useful and up-to-date data and then use it in any decisions making like a strategic plan for my current workplace and show it to other people to know about the data-related issues. From literacy data training, I expect to learn the useful tools for using in data searching and making it usable data. Moreover, I want to know about international and national websites for searching for data. After the training, I want to make a research paper related to youth engagement in decision making at the grassroots level by using any tools and knowledge from this training.

Data is important because it helps me to produce more attractive and reliable document for audience to see, so they are able to better understand the situation not only in Cambodia but also what happens in other regions and around the globe. I expect to learn where I can get data, how to use it in the way that can draw attention my audience to interest more in the issue that I try to share them. I would like to share this piece of document to my colleague and donor through the project that RECOFTC is working on called V4MF that focusing on forest governance, and to public person to be aware of what has been happening between women and forest governance and effort we have been trying to support the gender equality in forest management process and way forward.

I could say that Data is a King which is very important for my daily work since I do need to utilize it for presenting data/information with visualization in order to effectively engage with the public for reaching a wider audience. Upon completion of the training, I will learn more of the concept of open data strengthen my organization’s position, as well as my responsible programmes in using data effectively.

Without data, we cannot know for sure if our assumption or hypothesis is right or wrong. With it, we can analyse, make a conclusion and give appropriate reponse to various issues. I expect to further understand nature of data, learn different ways to gather data and know more open data sources. I want to be able to convey analysis of data/results correctly and interestingly in a manner readers can easily understand and see another side of various issues. Using data sets from Cambodia Socio-Economic Surveys, I plan to elaborate more on unpaid family workers in Cambodia especially its trend in agricultural and service sector and their socio-economic characteristics.

I have been working as a journalist for 7 years. Data is very important for me as a journalist. I can write a piece which is contain more data and make it into difference format such as infographic, map and our reader can easily understand the piece. I hope that I could gain more knowledge related to data in this training and I will share to my colleagues.

As a digital storyteller, I am referring data to highlight the impact of youth and volunteering to inspired Cambodia youth to get involved in volunteering and empower employability. Data Literacy training equipped with the skills and tools necessary for a data-based researcher like me to publish the powerful story to make change in the community.

In general, data is for information which most of news, reports come to data refers to information that easy to access and it is a good proof for research report and others. I want to know more about function and programs which related to data and using it for working. After the training, I will complete my story telling project.

In research field, data is very important for me because data demonstrates and proves our findings. Personally, my expectation from this training is that I want to improve more of data analysis skills and research writing. After the training, what I want to achieve is to produce a good writing research and good at data entry.

Data is a very new concept to me espeically when using it in news stories to. It does not mean I have never used data in my stories, but the data that I have had seems to not yet be enough and complete. To me, data is a very important information source in news stories; if a story does not have clear data, it does not show every angle of the story in an accurate manner to the public. Data is a crucial evidence that can measure the level and scale of a story. As a journalist, we do not just quote someone’s opinion, but we also have to verify the information that we got the. In short, data-driven story provides evidence to the readers and acts a document for research and study purposes.

Data is important because need it as evidence for advocacy and researcher. I would like to learned on how to searching with using data effectively and effectiveness, as well as building relationship among group. After the training, I want to at least publish one quality data story.

I understand that data forms an important part for handling my daily tasks, especially for situation analysis, decision making and planning. Though, I have firsthand experience in working with data, I feel there is a room for improving my skills in exploiting and interacting with different datasets more efficiently. Attending the Data Literacy Training, I aim at strengthen my skills in data mining and putting dataset together to find out most interesting story potentially hidden inside the data. Besides this, I am looking for opportunity for expanding my professional network for data sharing and for accessing to different datasets from different data sources. After the training, I expect to be more efficient in collecting and using secondary data from different sources for telling a story for the purpose of social development.

In my opinion, information is the power where the data is the main root of information. Hence, in our living we really need data in order to expand our non-blundering knowledge. In my career life, I utmost need the data for aggregating the information of project progress, beneficiaries, agriculture farms, agricultural business, economic trend and how the country economic trend in another 5 or 10 years. Without data, I am nothing and I can’t live or distribute to my society to change to be better. The ODC Literacy Training program is vital for person who works in the field of management and reporting. This program is utmost value for me to shape my professional data management as well as conducting research. I have gained lots of competency on data sourcing, data cleaning; data tool utilizing which comprehensively understand and are helpful. I expect that after the training, I will become one of professional data sourcing, good reporter and data trainers whom are my under-supervised staffs in organization.

In order to make a good decision, I have to gather data and analyst it significantly. Data could provide us a point of view or deep insight before decision making or changing. It will also contribute to some strategy, critical thinking for management team to betterment plan. From this intervention, I hope I could learn on how to use and fine data properly way, how to interpret data and publication, familiar with some tools on how to collect data, data visualization, write success story or impacts. I wish to produce a success story of Project Idea: Climate Smart Agriculture.

Data is important to me because it is the source for purpose for any organization or individual who use it for any purpose, to analyse and to evidence for the data. From this training, I will learn more understanding on data, using data, analyse data and develop data visualize..etc. I want to achieve this training in the ability as Data Journalist and researcher.

Data literacy — the ability to read, write and communicate data in context — is among the most important abilities for organizations today. So, it’s supply and demand. The demand is technology, and the supply needs to be data literate. In the training, I expect to further my knowledge on advanced data search, data utilization, and creative data interpretation and presentation. After the training, I want to produce a project on the Trend of Micro-nutrients deficiencies in Cambodia story.This trend story will raise people’s awareness of the situation of micronutrient deficiencies in Cambodia, and will be highlighting the areas (targeted provinces) that the government can focus nutritional program on more.

Normally, the data could tell a full story in digit and text. It is a solid evidence with complicated code to be read out. It would be better if I could learn and know how to read and interpret data in basic and easy way. After the training, I will be able to research data by using the introduced digital tools, read data in a smart way and interpret the complicated data into the simple way for public audience understandable. I want to be able to create a friendly dynamic infographic and online map for showcasing the safety Cambodian journalist project.

Data is very important and necessary for my working as researcher and project development. I worked with data like collecting, analyse, writing result from data and presentation data analysing to manager and donor. Especially, data help me to make right decision. I expect from the training such as first, I can learn more technique to get data or source from internet. Second, I can use new tool to collect data and analyse program for data. Last one, I had experience to write data story relate to vocational training. I plan to release one story about the role of vocational training with development in Cambodia. This story will tell audience about important role and challenge of TVET program.