The number of managers that ignore the data because their gut has gotten them this far. One of our senior executives doesn’t appreciate data viz and considers herself a “spreadsheet person.” So I am discouraged from having fun with viz and extending beyond the basics. The most common frustration that data visualization practitioners cite is the lack of time, often stemming from the organizational lack of respect paid to data visualization: “Coworkers do not understand what is possible”
Has a subordinate relationship with the stakeholder of their visualization.Īnd when I looked into their frustrations, I noticed that they fell into two primary categories: those stemming from others in the organization, and those from the technology.Does data visualization as only one of several tasks, and.Not hired to work on data visualization,.I think of this group as the most dissatisfied data visualization practitioners, the ones who are: So after all the work figuring out the factors leading to less time spent on visualizations, and lower perceived salaries, I decided to filter the respondents by them. Those who focus primarily on visualizations perceive higher total compensation relative to their peers But in retrospect, it makes sense that dedicated visualization teams - who get visualization requests from other teams, presumably with datasets already at the ready - would end up spending more time on creating the actual visuals. I had thought that being embedded in a team - especially teams working on specific problems or parts of the product - would mean more chances to work on related visualizations. When I started looking at percent of day spent on visualizations, I was expecting some of the results: it makes sense that those hired to do data visualization would work much more on it, and so would those with more representation in leadership.īut what I didn’t expect at all: those in a separate visualization group also tend to work on visualizations more than those embedded in another team. “Is there a separate group that does data visualizations or are you embedded in another group?”
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A visualization of the visualization communityįirst things first, here’s how to read the visualization (And here’s where you can play with it): I wanted to know whether more or less people had frustrations, and how that number correlated with other aspects of their data visualization jobs: if they were hired to do data visualization, were they more likely to have frustrations? What about if they were paid more or less than their UI and design counterparts, or if they worked collaboratively or subordinately with their stakeholders? By looking at the frustrations that come from specific parts of their jobs, I’m hoping to identify the areas that we as a community can work to better. Since none of the survey questions could actually measure whether people are leaving the field, I focused instead on their frustrations. It garnered 981 responses, and out of curiosity, I decided to dig into their answers.
The survey itself had 45 questions, and ranged from asking for demographic information to the role of data visualization in the respondent’s job. It stirred quite a bit of conversation, and resulted in a community survey and a Medium publication. 655 Frustrations Doing Data VisualizationĮarlier this year, my friend Elijah made a bold claim: that most people in data visualization end up leaving, because there’s something wrong with the current state of the field.
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