# How important is the Data Visualization Certificate?

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/how-important-is-the-data-visualization-certificate/196380>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [June 4, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/how-important-is-the-data-visualization-certificate/196380 "2018-06-04T13:00:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![UnschoolAcademy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/unschoolacademy/32/69043_2.png) [@UnschoolAcademy](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/UnschoolAcademy)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/how-important-is-the-data-visualization-certificate/196380/1 "2018-06-04T13:00:52Z")

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I’m halfway through with the Front End Libraries Certificate, and am really, really excited to learn node.js and express. I kind of want to skip the data visualization certificate.  
How important is learning D3? I don’t feel like I’m ever going to really need to know how to make a bar graph for one of my personal projects or to get a job to be honest. I’d like to be proven wrong though. It would be awesome to hear how great D3 is and how critical it is to Web Development, I just don’t feel like that’s the case 😕.

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**Author:** ![kevinSmith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/kevinsmith/32/72934_2.png) [@kevinSmith](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/kevinSmith)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/how-important-is-the-data-visualization-certificate/196380/2 "2018-06-05T00:10:41Z")

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With the old curriculum, there was no issue skipping over the DV section, I assume there isn’t an issue here. I do notice that it has a section “JSON APIs and Ajax” and that might be nice to run through, unless you have that down pat.

Is DV important to get a job? I see it pop up on a lot of job postings, not most, but enough that I notice it, and many of those mention D3 by name. It would be good to at least have done a little of it. But you could probably skip it for now.

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**Author:** ![UnschoolAcademy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/unschoolacademy/32/69043_2.png) [@UnschoolAcademy](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/UnschoolAcademy)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/how-important-is-the-data-visualization-certificate/196380/3 "2018-06-05T13:33:40Z")

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Yaaaaaay! Thanks for the answer! Yeah I already did Ajax & Json from the Legacy Front End Certificate. I made the weather app, twitch stream thing(ect.). I think I’m going to skip Data Visualization and learn Node.js because I am SO EXCITED TO LEARN BACKEND! But of course, I’ll go back to learn it after completing the APIs and Microservices certificate. Thanks for the advice! Very helpful!

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**Author:** ![ILM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/ilm/32/363239_2.png) [@ILM](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ILM)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/how-important-is-the-data-visualization-certificate/196380/4 "2021-01-17T20:20:01Z")

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Closed on January 17, 2021, 8:20pm UTC