The DVS Titles Edition: What your job title reveals (or not) about what you do…

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The visualization works well to show quick overviews of different job titles in the data visualization field. The design is definitely interesting and engaging.

Created by the AMI-Duet: Anne-Marie Dufour - Data visualization designer & developer, and Inbal Rief - Data empathy designer.

A job title is a term that describes the position held by us as an employee, or a freelancer. Mostly it reflects the level of the position, our progression - junior to expert - and the responsibilities we handle. Your title can be just a few words, less or much more. In our 2020’s survey, DVS members have listed 911 unique different titles, as well as variations, starting from 2-letter titles to 82 letters. How would you answer “Tell me about your job title?”— In this special edition, we wish to visually decode relations between your job title and other parameters. Our visualization explores the diversity in this question (and yes, what a diversity we have!) through a unique frequency arcs chart, envisioned, planned, designed and developed for mobile.

We targeted a certain format (mobile) and limited data (job titles), setting ourselves with a set of constraints but intriguing possibilities. The data alone could not offer us "easy" information on the underlying relationships like the overall survey's responses data, and while we had a striking metaphor to take off, we had to work backwards and constantly ask - do we really have the facts to communicate our data in an exploratory way? - What's the story behind these job titles?

Once our data was formed and shaped, we created an interactive step-through interface focusing on our narrative and creative direction.

https://ami-duet.github.io/dvs-titles-2020/