Ask HN: Looking for new career?

1 points by codedninja 12y ago ↗ HN

Little back story: I started professionally programming when I started a hosting company. With that I created small projects that used different API's and displayed the data differently or nicer.

Now I work for a financial institute and I slowly got asked and gained the skill to write reports for the company. I quickly learned I loved data more and displaying it in beautiful ways.

I want to change career to something that is related to data. I really don't know what is the title that goes along with what I want to do. All I know playing with data seeing how things relate and such is fun to me.

Question is: What is the title that describes a person who deals with data and displays it?

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jamesdelaneyie 12y ago ↗

Not sure, but this might be your bible: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

PaulHoule 12y ago ↗

"Data Scientist" is a fashionable job title today that covers having some bundle of skills including statistics, visualization, programming, presentation skills, business analysis, etc.