Elevate Your Dataviz Skills
A Thriving Community with Direct Access to Industry Experts
Join our warm and welcoming community of data visualization professionals at every career stage. Get direct access to four industry-leading mentors through regular office hours, and live feedback sessions, and an active community where your questions are answered in hours, not days.
Unlike traditional courses, Elevate is built around real-time interaction and personalized guidance. Bring your works-in-progress, career questions, client challenges, or technical roadblocks, and get quick, expert feedback from people who've built successful careers in the field.
Dreaming of a career as a creative dataviz professional?
We’ve been where you are.
This is the membership program that we wish we had. We started in different fields, creating side projects during our evenings and weekends, and we’ve now grown into full-time data practitioners for top-tier clients like Scientific American, Axios, Pentagram, Information Is Beautiful, United Nations, P&G, and Conservation International. We each forged our path in different ways — we've learned what works and what doesn't.
In this program, you get access to not one but four mentors — without needing to send a single awkward email.
Personal data visualization coaching
Prompt and reliable feedback when you need it most.
Our community thrives on interaction. Post your works-in-progress, ask about client challenges, or seek career advice in our active community. Get responses within hours from both mentors and experienced peers.
Bi-weekly live office hours for personalized, face-to-face advice
Direct mentor feedback on your projects and career questions
Active community discussions and immediate problem-solving
Resource recommendations tailored to your specific challenges
Message mentors and members anytime for quick guidance
A deep archive of knowledge on a wide range of topics, from templates and scripts to navigate freelancing, to data visualization storytelling frameworks.
The Elevate Dataviz Show
Get to know us! Every month, Alli, Duncan, Gabby and Will get together to talk about a crucial topic in data visualization. As a member, you get a premium seat at the table: we will answer any of your questions live during the show.
Learn with us through community, not just content.
While we do provide a wealth of articles and videos on different techniques and topics, the real value of the Elevate community comes from learning alongside practicing professionals. Share your processes, and see how others approach problems.
Community feedback on real-world projects
Behind-the-scenes process sharing from mentors and members
Industry conversations about trends, tools, and techniques
Curated resources requested by the community
Career guidance from those who've successfully made the transition
Inspiration from both the dataviz community and the wider design world
A quick look!
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So Loud That it Hurts - Why You Need to Try Data Sonification
Duncan has become convinced that sonification is the most valuable underused tool in an information designer's repertoire and that it has vast potential for improving our work. Here’s why.
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Finding a Niche in Dataviz
If you've heard it once, you've heard it 1,000 times: you need a niche to be successful in business! But how does that apply to data viz? Isn't data viz a niche in itself? How far down should you niche? Does it actually help? Are there risks?
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My Process for Creating Visual Metaphors
When a designer uses a visual metaphor, they can seamlessly transfer information to our brain, while the same information read from a book would make our eyes glaze over. Why?
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Do I need to learn D3?
To answer this question, we first need to understand two things: 1) What is D3? and 2) How did we get here? Then we’ll tall about why learning enough to dabble in D3 can be awesome.
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Getting Started with Dataviz Sketching
Last year. Dimcam wrote a blog post, off the back of a panel talk appearance, about sketching data visualizations. Today, he turned this content into a in-depth video for improving your dataviz sketching.
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Five Tips For Dataviz on Instagram
Instagram is the 4th most-used platform on any mobile app. More than a billion people use it every month. If you are considering it to show off some work or try out some new ideas, here are a couple of tips.
How much
does it cost?
$10 USD/month
The price of a fancy latte for access to a professional community and four industry mentors. We've kept our price accessible because we believe in supporting the dataviz community during a period of disruption in the industry.
What our members are saying
“Yesterday’s office hours totally changed my thoughts on what I want to do…In less than a week, joining Elevate has easily been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
— Dylan Omran
“I struggle a lot with imposter syndrome, but the people I've met through Elevate have been incredibly supportive, willing to give feedback and share their experiences. It's a comfortable, empowering space where we are all on our learning journeys, no matter at what point.”
— Simran Parwani
“It is the best of times to learn information design and data visualisation - these areas seem to be getting more and more attention. However, too much information made me feel paralysed; I did not really know where to start. Being part of a membership programme like Elevate has helped me a lot. I have quite a lot of resources to read, watch, and learn but I also have amazing mentors and colleagues who help me out whenever I have doubts. The community and challenges motivate me to keep on learning and the office hours are perfect for one-on-one talks about specific issues.”
— Marília Ferreira da Cunha
“I’ve really enjoyed my time being part of the Elevate community. Not only do I get access to top notch analysis on the state of data visualization practice and methods for improving my skills, but I also get to interact with a community of experts who have already provided me with extremely useful feedback. This was, without doubt, the most beneficial part of the program. I have no hesitations in recommending Elevate to those who wish to exponentially improve their data visualisation skillset.”
— Darragh Murray
“The Elevate Beta has been great. Alli, Duncan, Gabby and Will have really given of themselves, to create content that inspires, gives you a different angle and helps you to take a step back. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect, but it it has excelled. The Finding Your Style challenge was an eye opener, I loved the interview with Nicholas Rougeux and Alli and Duncan’s pitch for a data viz on spiders. This isn’t just a collection of useful blog posts, but a live channel where you can connect and receive individual feedback. And the bonus is that the community already has lots of really interesting members and we can all learn and share with each other. Bravo to the team.”
— Chris Woods
Join the Elevate Membership Program and level up your dataviz skills.
If you have any specific questions, you can email us at [email protected]
Not sure if you’re ready?
We also have small courses, and tutorials to help you level up as a data visualization expert.
