Tag: Career

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Jason Forrest

The “Dashboard” is Broken

The value of dashboards has eroded. When executives hear the word “dashboard” today, they envision standard charts in BI platforms—obligatory elements for meetings rather than..
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Jason Forrest

How to Get a Job

This article was originally published in Nightingale Magazine Issue 5 as “How to Get Work”.Not many people know this, but I had a protracted search..
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datacitron

Good Morning Data #9 | The Error Message Longing 

The Error Message Longing or “How we should always treasure our mistakes“The conversation was loud and happy, scattered with high-pitched laughs that were probably annoying..
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Mark Mohammadpour, APR, Fellow PRSA (he/him)

Cultivating Empathy in Data Stories

Oxford Dictionary defines empathy as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” The last few years have highlighted the importance of experiencing..
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Massimiliano Belli

Finding Balance: My Remote Work Story from Italy

Research from the OECD Better Life Index shows that a significant portion of people in OECD countries are not satisfied with their work-life balance and..
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Christopher Laubenthal

Stop Trying to Prove Yourself with a Viz

Every data visualization job that I have held has included introducing my work to teammates and then feeling like I have to impress them.
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Christopher Laubenthal

What Data Job Descriptions Tell Us

Explore the nuances of data job descriptions: Learn to read between the lines and understand what's truly being offered in the data field.
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Christopher Laubenthal

Why One Person Can’t Do Everything In Data

No one person can perform every data-related task in an organization. Here's a way to explain role classification by skill set.
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Victor Muñoz

Data Dreams Come True: My DVS Mentorship Experience

The DVS mentorship program was as much an emotional experience as it was an educational one. Here are key lessons I learned along the way.
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Declan Bradley

How a DVS Mentorship Changed My Approach to Data Journalism

Over the course of the mentorship, I iterated on a data visualization project that bridged my two passions: data science and journalism.
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Julia Büchting

Conquering Self Doubt After a Career Change

My transition from art to business analytics wasn't easy. Here's how I managed the transition and thrived.
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Nightingale Editors

Career Paths in Data Visualization

Portraits of different career areas, and profiles of people who work in data visualization.
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Taylor Johnston

What a Data Viz Mentor—And The Data Viz Community—Taught Me About Accessibility

My experience with the DVS Mentorship Program gave me technical and practical skills to carry forward.
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Mark Palmer

How to Get Executives on Board with Data Visualization

Convincing senior executives to jump on the data visualization bandwagon isn’t as complicated as you think: here are five tips to get senior decision-makers on..
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Emma Tait

No Straight Lines: My Process Is Messy and Full of Failures and That’s Okay

The DVS Mentorship Program revolutionized my creative process: learning is iterative, failure is vital, growth comes in many forms, and straight lines are overrated.  No..
A data visualisation showing the flights and fates of the Soviet Space Dogs. Each dog is represented by a circle. Circle size shows the number of flights they undertook and circle colour indicates whether they survived, while a coloured tail shows the gender of the dog. Flights are represented by triangles along a timeline at the bottom. Triangle height shows the flight altitude and triangle colour shows the rocket type used. Dogs are connected by lines to the flights that they flew on.D
Phoenix

Discovering Data Visualisation: How I Discovered and Fell in Love with Data Visualisation Art

I stumbled upon data visualisation art quite by accident early in 2022, at a time when I was at an interesting crossroads in my life...