This refers to the ability to locate, evaluate, organise and share information and data, to help with decision making.
It is often a requirement with many job roles that you will have to analyse and evaluate written and numerical data in a range of contexts such as:
You will probably use a variety of resources to help you with this, such as:
You will need to know how to organise the information you find for your own use and also to share with your work colleagues, file sharing tools like One Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox can help with this.
It is not only about organising and presenting data you will also need to be able to judge if the information is trustworthy and relevant as well as distinguish different kinds of information eg academic, professional, personal and political. It is good to have a knowledge of copyright and data protection to know what type of information can be shared.
These are some of the skills that you may require to effectively analyse, evaluate and share data:
TED talk The beauty of data visualisation David McCandless 18 minutes