Data visualization has grown into an important professional skill that can be challenging to acquire and develop. By joining the Data Visualization Society you’ll be able to discover and create the means to better develop that skill. Whether you are new to data visualization or deeply familiar with it, membership will expose you to like-minded practitioners to help you improve your skills.
What we’ve accomplished
Conduct research on similar organizations
Decide on a name and create a logo, website and twitter
Write a code of conduct
Create a way for people to become members
Hold weekly meetings with the founding members
Collect data about community events and awards
Started a Slack and welcomed over 3,500 people and counting into the group
Create a process for creating new Slack channels
Updated the logo to reflect current membership
Create a medium account and published posts
Release some anatomized membership data for people to visualize and created a gallery of submissions
Email members their unique data fingerprint badges
created an email list and sent a welcome message
Patreon for short term funding
Organized the Slack channels
What we’re planning
Collect data about the community and share it
Curate resources for data visualization
Design and list swag
Create a mentorship program
Long term strategic planning
Revising the data visualization survey for 2019
Create future challenges
Create a list of other similar but tool based communities
Local chapters