Hi, I'm exploring changing career paths.<p>From your experience, can someone earn a meaningful income (USD 8K or more) doing data visualizations and working remotely?<p>Has anyone here successfully done this?<p>In the past I have been a pretty good software engineer. I'm proficient in JavaScript and Golang, my Ruby and Python skills are rusty at best.<p>By Data Visualizations, I'm referring to works similar to these stunning pieces -> https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/ by Nadieh Bremer.<p>Presently, I can do most of these.<p>Is there are market for remote workers that does this king of work that pays well? What have your experiences been like?
I don't make a living doing data visualisation but I know a few people who do (Nadieh being one of them).<p>I don't know their rates or how exactly they've been working with clients recently.<p>However, there's sizeable demand (and not nearly enough supply) for that kind of high-quality dataviz work. There's also nothing that'd inherently require this work to be done non-remotely. Quite to the contrary, this kind of work particularly lends itself to being done remotely.<p>Knowing the tech (mostly D3.js and Processing) is only one, small component of a successful career in that field, though.<p>Having seen quite a few of Nadieh's (and similar data visualisation designers') talks I'd say that design, UX, an understanding of art and a creative imagination are just as important, probably even much more so.<p>PS: You might also want to check out Mike Brondbjerg's work: <a href="http://www.kultur.design/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kultur.design/</a>
I don't know current rates.
Two years ago I was working in a data consultancy in Spain and it was <i>really</i> hard to recruit D3js developers.
No good D3js developers: just <i>someone</i> able to code in D3js.
Hi Hm I think you'd find the best commercial opportunities being an expert or trainer or Tableau or Power BI. I think you should talk to a few "Data Journalists" if you want to produce stuff like Nadieh's work - I feel like you will need a portfolio to get that kind of work.