Visualization Era and Skill Development

Communication through visual imagery has been around forever. In science, business, education and engineering today computer graphics are one of the most important developments in visualization. We live in a data driven world and the skill sets for informing through data are important.

Where is visualization used?

Helping people to understand important data is the main reason why visualization skills are needed. Data visualization tools or software is what is used to create the data and the way that it is presented is becoming ever more sophisticated.

Visualization is important to most industries and these include government, finance, marketing, history, education and so much more. This is almost certainly one of the most useful skills to develop.

Other duties include transforming improving and integrating data; combining data results across multiple sources and delivering the data in an understanding an appealing way.

Visualization skill development

This is the type of career that requires clarity, accuracy and efficiency and requires the use of some specialized visualization tools such as Tableau, QlikView Data Wrapper, 3D Max, Engineering visualizations tools and others.

The right candidate for a career in visualization will have excellent analytical skills, the ability to wade through large amounts of information, and be able to juggle facts, figures and numbers. Critical thinking is essential as is attention to detail and excellent mathematical skills.

The educational criteria are usually a Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or something that develops analytical skills like mathematics or statistics. There are also postgraduate degrees in data visualization.

 Malaysia has become a hub for many industries and even small businesses and startups rely on data. That is the reason why the demand for analysts, data scientists and visualization skills has grown over the last decade and there are job opportunities available in the sectors such as Automobiles industry, Telecommunications, Banking and Manufacturing. Industry 4.0 and Digital Manufacturing systems and process definitely requires visualization and designing, thereby employment opportunities.