Comments on: 5 Types of Data Visualization People – What Type Are You?

By: Sean Carmody

Sean Carmody — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:05:14 +0000

I am firmly in the Analyzer camp (my weapon of choice is R), with aspirations to being an Artist, but sadly lacking the requisite skills!

By: gambetta

gambetta — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:04:30 +0000

light bulb undoubtedly.

very big, eco friendly light bulb.

By: Jason Adams

Jason Adams — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:10:44 +0000

40% Technician, 40% Analyzer, 20% artist

I spend too much time making sure the output looks good, even when I may be the only one who ever sees it, so I figure that must be at least 20% artist..

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:20:21 +0000

60% Technician, 40% Analyzer

By: Noah Iliinsky

Noah Iliinsky — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:37:43 +0000

Definitely the light bulb. I was a technician in my former career, started visualization work as an analyzer, and know enough about the art/aesthetics to take something from utilitarian to more effective.

By: Angel

Angel — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:47:51 +0000

50% Analyzer, 50% Artist.

One of those people that spend *way* too much time tweaking the appearances of output.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:37:18 +0000

There is that sixth hacker type who thinks the more added features, the better the viz is, but no one would admit that. Because they _can_ add that stuff they are the guru – beauty and genius wrapped into one.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:15:32 +0000

50% technician, 40% Light Bulb & 10% undefined. I’m not bad with color schemes, but suck at graphic composition…

By: D Davis

D Davis — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:31:02 +0000

Light Bulb – 100%. I like to do some of each, but don’t have a team to do any of the projects (so I do it myself). I want to get to the ‘zen master’ part ;).

By: Tony Rose

Tony Rose — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:02:24 +0000

I would consider myself close to you with a minor change in that you are probably more technical than me.

I would say 70% Analyst, 20% Technician, 10% Artist.

I like Jon’s suggestion for a 6th category for ‘Hack’, Outsider may work, maybe?.

I bet you could come up with the optimal balance for different areas [jobs] in data visualization.