DVS Badge
Introduction
If you’ve been part of the DVS community since the founding in 2019, you might remember that we used to create custom badges for each member that uniquely represented their data visualization skills across 9 variables. Many of our members would proudly display their badge as their profile photo on social media and our Slack.
Amy Cesal, one of the co-founders of DVS described in her Medium article how she designed the DVS logo and badges:
“Since data visualization touches on many skill sets, and people come to it from different backgrounds, I wanted to visualize each member’s unique visualization skills. The skill categories are loosely inspired by Andy Kirk’s data visualization hats principal. While there’s no absolute metric to measure these qualities, we developed a way to let people rank themselves across 9 categories pertaining to their skills in Data, Visualization, and Society.”
We are pleased to announce that we are officially bringing the DVS badge back to dues-paying members. You can visually represent your own identity and skillset in this badge. We hope the badge will provide a means for you to measure your growth and progress in your personal and professional journey. We encourage you to update the badge each year to see how far you have come and identify new goals you’d like to set for yourself.
How to interpret the badge
Data
Data collection - Scraping or obtaining data that is not provided in an easy format
Data cleaning - Tidying data to make it easier to work with
Data analysis - Modeling data to discover new information
Visualization
Building - Creating data visualizations using code or tools
Design - Evaluating needs, and creating visual concepts
Storytelling - Creating compelling narratives
Society
Project management - Planning and organizing work
Community - Participating in events and conversation
Leadership - Influencing the direction
Update your information to get your DVS Badge
Login to your account below
Click on “Edit your profile”
Update your information under “Questions to create your unique data visualization badge”
Click on ‘Update profile” to save your updates
You will automatically get an email with the image file of your badge
If you have any questions about your DVS badge, please email them to membership@datavisualizationsociety.org.