Data visualisation often requires a skillset that intersects with any science backgrounds. Since you were undoubtedly trained into using something like matlab it can give you a serious leg up when ot comes to doing statistical inferences from the data and custom processing of the data. Any signal processing you did can come handy when using photoshop too.

But for the core of graphic designers work not much

Data visualization often requires a skill set that intersects with any science backgrounds. Since you were undoubtedly trained into using something like Matlab it can give you a serious leg up when it comes to doing statistical inferences from the data and custom processing of the data. Any signal processing you did can come handy when using Photoshop too.

But for the core of graphic designers work not much