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Record W4406435392 · doi:10.1162/99608f92.6f5dfc6f

Data Literacy in Industry: High Time to Focus on Operationalization Through Middle Managers

2025· article· en· W4406435392 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueHarvard Data Science Review · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicData Quality and Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersDalhousie University
KeywordsOperationalizationFocus (optics)Middle managementBusinessLiteracyPsychologyMarketingPedagogy

Abstract

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The recent global business mania around adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has amplified interest in organizational data literacy efforts in industry. Data literacy, when scoped clearly and comprehensively, represents a spectrum inclusive of business, data and analytical acumen (inclusive of AI), as well as degrees of capability (literacy, fluency and mastery). In the face of the well-known change management challenges, we believe that current discussion focused on the executive suite is not sufficient and must extend to the primary execution arm, which is the middle management layer in most organizations.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.015
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Scholarly communication, Open science, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.332
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0150.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.007
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.009
Open science0.0120.007
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.015

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.334
GPT teacher head0.493
Teacher spread0.158 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it