When searching for an article I had saved in Pocket, I stumbled across an article I had saved about the winning entry in the recent Data Visualization Society Census Challenge.  If you had not heard of data visualization challenges, Tableau has an annual Iron Viz challenge where people compete to create data visualizations.  The article is interesting and worth a read, but it also mentions the Data Visualization Society, which you can join for free, and their website has links to resources in this space plus other data challenges.  There is also a link to their recent inaugural Outlier conference on data visualization which was online due to the pandemic.

The data visualization community combines people from a variety of backgrounds trying to make informative data visualizations that capture your attention.  They are people interested in communicating with data who combine programming skills (mainly JavaScript and related platforms) with graphic arts abilities. If you are a hardcore programmer, you may think they are too artsy, and if you are purely a graphic artist, they may seem nerdy, but if you are interested in the intersection of both, these may be your people, so check them out.