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The purpose of the survey is to help the Data Visualization Society and the broader data visualization community understand the state of data visualization, the people who make it, the challenges they face, what can help practitioners, and where the field is headed.

2023

The 2023 Data Visualization SOTI Survey has responses to 49 questions available to all respondents, with up to an additional 24 questions if they had data visualization roles in an organization, as a freelancer, as a hobbyist, and in academia. A total of 869 respondents provided usable data for analysis and 680 reached the end of the survey. The survey included topics such as professional and data viz experience; compensation and location; charts and tools; challenges and changes; looking ahead; time and inspiration; and demographics.

2022

The 2022 Data Visualization SOTI Survey has responses to 70+ questions and was taken by over 1,500 people.

2021

The Data Visualization: State of the Industry Survey 2021 was run by the Data Visualization Society and had 2,181 responses to over 60 questions.

2020

The Annual Data Visualization Community Survey for 2020 was run by the Data Visualization Society. It has responses to 50+ questions and was taken by over 1,700 people. The survey was re-designed to be inclusive of different types of practitioners including those who work full time for organizations in primarily data visualization roles, freelancers, students, teachers and hobbyists. Respondents were given different sets of questions tailored to their roles depending on what type (or multiple types) of practitioner they identified as.

2019

The Annual Data Visualization Community Survey for 2019 was run by the Data Visualization Society. It has responses to 50+ questions and was taken by over 1,350 people. It covers professional data visualization details like salary and hourly compensation, tool use, location, demographic data, audiences, organizational structure.

2018

Personally run by Elijah Meeks. 48 questions with 627 responses.

2017

Personally run by Elijah Meeks. 43 questions about data visualization. Just under 1,000 responses.