Data literacy tools

Data literacy tools empower employees to read, work with, analyze, and communicate with data. It enables them to ask the right questions and build knowledge in order to communicate meanings through data. Data skills are now essential for any role and the lack of data literacy within the company can lead to misinterpretation and misrepresentation of the facts.

Atlan

Atlan is a modern, cloud native data catalog. It's ease of use and intuitive interface enables diverse personas including engineers, data stewards and business users to discover, understand and trust data. Atlan leverages machine learning and a bots ecosystem to automate documentation and stewardship tasks such as automatic data profiling, data quality alerts and glossary tagging. It is built on an Open API architecture, and has a pay as you go pricing model, making it a good fit for teams of all sizes.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: -
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes

Sidecar

Sidecar data catalog is a modern, intuitive and comprehensive tool to discover, classify and enrich all your data assets. Automatically index all the metadata in a centralized repository and provide a clear view of the complex and fragmented data management environments to your data consumer. With the Business Glossary capabilties, you can easily enrich all your data assets with business context, clear definitions, rules and transformations. Foster team work among the user community by exchanging ideas on the data assets with the collaboration tool. Add custom tags and classifcations to organize your assets and manage your sensitive data to comply with GDPR, HIPAA, CPRA, etc... Data consumers will spend less time searching for the right data and focus on delivering faster insights.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: No
Export: CSV,XML
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes

Stemma

Stemma is a fully managed data catalog, powered by the leading open-source data catalog, Amundsen. By bridging the gap between data producers and data consumers, Stemma enables you to gain total trust in your data. Stemma provides enterprise management (easy deployment, enterprise-grade security) and richer metadata. It makes finding trustworthy data easy and offers an always up-to-date view of your data's usage at any time through automated documentation based on common usage patterns.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: No
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: -
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes

Select Star

Select Star automatically catalogs & documents your database tables and BI dashboards. You can find out where your data is coming from, which dashboards are built on top of it, who is using the data, and how they are using it.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: -
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: No
Export: CSV,JSON
Free edition: Yes
Rating of assets: No

Data literacy drives success, and the quicker the company becomes data literate, the quicker it can witness better results. The lack of data literacy skills can lead to insecurity within employees. The companies that invest in data literacy can not only eliminate this problem but also experience benefits such as:

• Better decision making.
• Increased customer satisfaction.
• Improved employee satisfaction.

We prepared a list of data literacy tools to help you and your employees with a better use and understanding of data in order to make better and faster data-driven decisions.