Which DVS Persona Are You? (Quiz)

Created by: Joseph Ricafort

Which among the 16 DVS personas are you and what does it says about the majority of the personas who have the same persona as you? Four different variables (years experience, role, annual income, commitment), split into two leaning sides each, mixed-and-match and altogether resulted into 16 different personas! Which one are you? This Quiz will help you identify which persona are you the closest among the 16 unique DVS personas. It also describes how of you have the same persona and how common or rare your persona type is among the DVS community.

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Are there coworkers like me?

Created by: Sarina Chen

Since the pandemic, people have been switching jobs to accommodate their change in routine, living situation, or life priorities. Whether it be in-person or remote, onboarding in a less social environment could feel pretty lonely. It's difficult to meet new people with similar interests. This graphic compares people in the workplace and identifies groups of people that have similar roles, years of experience, and industry.

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Data Viz Roles' Salary and Gender Balance

Created by: Verena Schrader

When considering becoming a data visualization designer or switching roles within field, a question that comes into one's mind is how high is the earning potential. This question was the starting point for analyzing the data. Another goal was to evaluate gender balance.

The DVS Survey 2021 data has been used to create the visualization. The first part, the flowing sankey diagram, shows that salaries vary greatly, based on the different roles. The second half shows the percentage of women and men in the respective salary ranges. The amount of diverse data was too small to be shown in the diagram.

The result shows that the salary depends not only on the working field and role, but also on gender. The visualization illustrates that the balance is not yet finished. Although gender equality has made great steps forward in the past few years, one can see that there is still room for improvement.

The fonts and colors used in the diagram are accessibility tested and should also work for people having any kind of color blindness. Furthermore salary information from the survey results were summarized to ranges to make the chart easier to understand.

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Who Do We Create Data Visualizations For?

Created by: Elie Francis

We asked our members in 2021 to tell us who they created data visualizations for in their organisation or (freelancers) for their clients. The results have been ranked from most-to-least selected audience category - showing both employees in organisations and freelancers. 2021 rankings have also been compared to results from 2020 survey.

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Relation of Roles

Created by: William Careri

In the annual Data Visualization Society’s survey, 72% of respondents declared themselves as working either in-house or as a freelancer. Between the two, a wide range of roles appeared. This graphic illustrates the distribution of their respective roles and backgrounds.

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Dataviz Practitioners Toolbox: 5 Years of DVS Survey Data

Created by: Anne-Sophie Pereira De Sá

4.7 is the average number of tools a dataviz practitioner uses according to the 2021 edition of the Data Visualization Society survey. Explore the most used tools and their trends over the 5 past years.

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Still Growing

Created by: Yi Ning

The data-visualization explores who tends to take up unpaid data visualization work to build their portfolio. The initial motivation was to look at potential entry barriers into the data-visualization field by comparing younger professionals and their current data visualization roles with those who are older. Among those with up to 1 year of experience, more tend to be hobbyists. For the rest of the group, people who take up unpaid projects vary in the range of data-viz roles they identify with. The graphic shows counts of respondents in each age group who work on uncompensated data-viz projects to build their portfolios, with identifier markers to reflect their current involvement in data-viz.

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Getting the Word Out

Created by: Lisa Vissichelli

Data visualizations are gaining popularity and industries are demanding a wider range of ways to get the word out. This year’s DVS census shows that industries are evolving how they share data visualizations. Of the top three communication methods, Dashboards, Presentations and Document or Report emerged as the highest use cases. This graphic illustrates how industries prefer communicating data visualizations by method.

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