From your experience, can someone earn a meaningful income (USD 8K or more) doing data visualizations and working remotely?
Has anyone here successfully done this?
In the past I have been a pretty good software engineer. I'm proficient in JavaScript and Golang, my Ruby and Python skills are rusty at best.
By Data Visualizations, I'm referring to works similar to these stunning pieces -> https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/ by Nadieh Bremer.
Presently, I can do most of these.
Is there are market for remote workers that does this king of work that pays well? What have your experiences been like?
I don't know their rates or how exactly they've been working with clients recently.
However, there's sizeable demand (and not nearly enough supply) for that kind of high-quality dataviz work. There's also nothing that'd inherently require this work to be done non-remotely. Quite to the contrary, this kind of work particularly lends itself to being done remotely.
Knowing the tech (mostly D3.js and Processing) is only one, small component of a successful career in that field, though.
Having seen quite a few of Nadieh's (and similar data visualisation designers') talks I'd say that design, UX, an understanding of art and a creative imagination are just as important, probably even much more so.
PS: You might also want to check out Mike Brondbjerg's work: http://www.kultur.design/