Advancing data literacy is one of our nation's greatest educational challenges. We all live in a world increasingly filled with data resources. As citizens, we need to know how these data streams are affecting the decisions of our elected leaders and city managers. As students we need to learn how to manipulate and analyze data sources. And, as individuals, we need to become empowered to use these resources to add knowledge that will help us manage our lives, from our stock portfolios to digital scans of our bodies.

BELOW: Data-rich application development brings active data resources to the desktop.