A useful article that suggests
ways to make a living doing data visualisation.
The original post includes links to groups and individuals working in the suggested areas but a brief synopsis includes:
- News & Media - Producing visualisations that make the complex data sets underpinning the new understandable to the layman.
- Design Studios - Working hand-in-hand with designers to do branding and installations.
- Analytics Groups - Supporting decision making processes by enabling business and government to make sense of the huge datasets that they are gathering.
- Research Labs & Academics - Coming up with new ways to visualise data; designing, experimenting, and analysing, then writing papers to publicise it.
- Freelancing & Consulting - Providing visualisation expertise to companies that need a one-off visualisation or who don't have sufficient volume to support a dedicated staff.
