Every year, the Data Visualization Society publishes a State of the Industry survey on the work of data visualizers around the world. In this year's survey, the more than 1,500 respondents were asked, "Who do you find helpful for inspiration in data visualization?"

These are their answers.

Repondents named more than 700 individuals, organizations, and resources that inspire them — visualized here as a network of collaboration that supports the data visualization community.

For inspirers, represented in black, node size represents the number of respondents who listed them as an inspiration, while for respondents, node size represents reported years of experience in data visualization. Color, meanwhile, represents respondents' roles at their places of employment, if applicable.

This web application was developed by Declan Bradley using react, sigmajs, and materialize and incorporates example code from all three libraries. The site icon was created by Arjun Adamson and is licensed under CC 3.0.