Feedback request. I try to make a visual overview of my experience so far and my future plans. Any comments regarding both, visual side and scientific/career side really appreciated. - Pawel Szczesny

One quick suggestion: increase the font size and color differences. It might emphasize your primary interests a bit more. - tim from Alert Thingy

Thanks Timothy. That's a good suggestion. I work on another version that would incorporate some more details on the past projects, but so far it's even less readable than this one. - Pawel Szczesny

I really like the concept of this. I take it the colors correspond to particular positions you held? Have you tried using a color gradient for the categories (photography, science, programming, ...) and different fonts to distinguish each job/educational position? - Chris Lasher

Thanks Chris, that's a great suggestion! Having a "now" line makes current color code a little redundant. - Pawel Szczesny

Good idea. How would you show projects that are still on? Maybe you can change the text direction? - Marcin

Most people with color deficient vision (like mine) will not be able to tell your red from your green (I can't). Also it seems a little odd that there is only one thing in the photography category (a hobby?) and so the columns do not really line up. Maybe a third color for non-work-related? And seconding Chris' idea to use fonts to distinguish where you learned/worked on each item in the list. - Bill Hooker

@Bill Did you notice Pawel plots the words according to two axes: skillset along the X-axis, and time of gaining that experience along the Y-axis? I missed this at first and was wondering about the Photo category, too, but then I realized how "scientific animations" and "molecular visualizations" spanned both Science and Photography, and hence, they're in between them on the X-axis. That's neat, because you can see that Pawel's interest in visual things started off in night photography... - Chris Lasher

...and when combined with his exposure to science led him to do, say, visualization of biological networks. Really cool concept. Also, good call about reds and greens. - Chris Lasher

Marcin, things still going are around the "now" line (dashed line in the middle). I don't think exact start/end does matter, it's more about how things circulate in time. Bill, Chris explained already what is the idea behind three "columns" and placing things. In the first approximation phrases were connected (and it was easier to get the idea about various inspirations), but I removed them for the clarity. Colors will be changed. - Pawel Szczesny

Thank you all for comments. Updated version with more explanations and feedback request is here: http://freelancingscience.com/2008... - Pawel Szczesny

Can you describe the method and source data used? It is informative and looks nice :) - Mike Chelen

Mike, it was a manual work done in Inkscape. I work on something similar done in Processing, but it's still at a draft stage. - Pawel Szczesny

That would cool to see, definitely more challenges though. Thanks - Mike Chelen

it's a great idea, it looks great, and it's a great way to have a quick overview of your competences! congrats! - Adrien Joly