Data visualization sits at an uncomfortable intersection; part design, part journalism, part engineering, part storytelling. Nobody arrives fully prepared and everyone spends at least some time feeling like an imposter. If you're early in your journey and wondering whether a career in data viz is for you — and where you'd even begin — this session is for you.
What do you actually need to know before you touch a tool? What does a typical workday or a real project look like? What are the career structures that exist in this field in India, and what does compensation actually look like across them? Three practitioners — Sandeep Karmarkar, Hamsa Ganesh, and Areena Arora — with varying experiences, will address these questions from three different vantage points. Between them, they represent the corporate design track, the independent studio track, and the newsroom track. The conversation will be structured, yet informal.
No one usually has it all charted out. No maps for a career in this field. But by the end of the session, you'll leave with a clearer picture of where you might fit, a more honest sense of what the work actually demands, and at least one answer to a question you've been carrying around for a while. Where your path goes from here is still yours to figure out. But you'll have a better sense of the terrain.