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Getting into Visualisation work in the UK

Started 2 years ago by SmeeZee / 4 posts

  1. SmeeZee
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi there

    Ok, I am a recent "mature" graduate in Computer Science (Masters) and whilst doing my course I was told about Processing. Since graduating I have been working through the book Visualizing Data, and am about to publish a couple of example.

    Does anyone have advise on getting in this industry (specifically in the UK)? I am stuck in a horrible contracting position at the moment due to the state of the market and am struggling to keep my focus on this subject (as it was escape from the job).

    Sorry to go on... Anyone inspire me further?

  2. nathany
    FlowingData Editor
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I guess a portfolio would be a good start. You should also decide what area of data visualization you want to get into. Design and art? Analytics? Web? Traffic? Crime? From there, I'd start looking into what's going on in that area right now, learn about it, etc...

    Ah, one thing you could do is browse the FD archives, and pay special attention to who's creating the viz and what company/firm/house they're from. That should give you some ideas too. Good luck :)

  3. hadley
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    If I was in your position, I'd start by trying to help others. Set up a website or blog, and start describing your trials and tribulations with processing. Enter some of the many data visualisation competitions around (esp. the regular ones on flowing data) to show off your work. As you create more visualisations, keep aware of the common components that they share. Start to extract this code out, publish it under an open source license and make it easier for other people to create data visualisations in processing.

  4. Jrichards
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    We're increasingly requiring the help of visualisers for our site these days. Being a newpaper, the ability to turn projects round extremely quickly is essential. The main skills we're after are Flash and JavaScript coding, but a strong design sense is also a plus. If any there's any UK-based visualisers out there who want to ping me a portfolio, by all means do.
    Jonathan Richards,
    Reporter, The Times
    jonathan.richards@thetimes.co.uk


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