A Recipe of Capabilities for Pursuing Expertise in Data Visualization: A Practitioner's Perspective

Data visualization is hard to master because of the inherent complexities that characterize the challenge of facilitating understanding. Competence with data visualization is gaining in recognition as an essential capability and thus fostering the necessary skills is paramount to prepare students for their future professional activity in this field; yet, it is a challenge for educators to design programs that cover all facets. This article presents a framework that profiles the range of different capability “ingredients” which form the recipe of expertise in data visualization, from the point of view of an experienced practitioner.