Infographics Make Learning More Interesting

At least that's what Education Web Design thinks, and I totally agree! :)

"By definition, an Infographic is 'an Information graphic – a visual representation of data.' When you have complex statistics and data, how else are you going to give it that mass appeal that new media companies are striving for?"

While it's rather sparse on text, I do love the cleanliness of the above infographic they featured.

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Beautiful Infographics

I was Web surfing during a quick work break today and came across these beautiful infographics generated by Well Formed Eigenfactor, which creates interactive visualizations based on Eigenfactor Metrics. Absolutely gorgeous....

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Infographic Designer Showcase

Information is Beautiful currently has a nice collection of infographic works from design duo Tyler Lang and Elsa Chaves. Their stuff is clean, visually appealing and most importantly, gets the message across in a clear and concise manner. Check out the full showcase to see more of their creations.

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The History of Human Communication

Specifically, long-distance communication via technology, and not communication powered by humans and animals trekking long distance to deliver written messages or to speak to your in person. I'm quite surprised the tin can and a string trick wasn't discovered until 1810. Anyways, super fun, super clean. Overall, well done, even if it is a promotional infographic for Google Voice.

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Self-Deprecating Infographic

Another one! I just can't get enough of these, because they're so funny and yet so true! Infographic Showcase has an even larger version so you can see the whole thing in all its snarky glory.

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iPhone diagram

So beautiful and elegant! If only I could find a bigger version and actually read the text!

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Legos

Oh, this brings back memories....

via Chart Porn

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Deciding Whether or Not to Upgrade

With my contract coming to an end soon with my current cellphone carrier, I've begun looking into whether I want to upgrade up to a better phone or go with something else entirely. Luckily Chart Porn posted this infographic today to help me decide.

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A Visual History of the American Presidency

Jam packed with all sorts of information, this is a go-to source for info about the American Presidency. The creator of the Infographic has quite a resume:

"Designed by Nathaniel Pearlman--one of the founders of Time Plots, which creates infographic posters, and also a former student of Edward Tufte--the Visual History provides historical data on population, presidential elections, Congress, the Supreme Court, the Cabinet, the U.S. economy, and the federal budget and debt. And that, '...places each president in historical context, visualizing a remarkable range of political, social, and economic measures to succinctly tell the story of the presidency.'"

via Fast Company

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Hotspots for Tourists vs. Locals

Wow if I could make this infographic into a poster I would. At the very least it deserves a new place of honor as my desktop wallpaper. Anyway, Eric Fischer has put together a bunch of maps of major cities based on photos uploaded to Flickr. In addition to mapping where the most photos were being uploaded, he also broke the data down into his guesstimation of which ones were taken by tourists and which ones were locals.  Here's how he describes the breakdown:

"Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).
Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).

Yellow points are pictures where it can't be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist (because they haven't taken pictures anywhere for over a month). They are probably tourists but might just not post many pictures at all."

Check out the full set of maps on Flickr.

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Designing an Infographic

Ever wonder the intricate details in the design and thought process that went into creating a totally awesome infographic? Check out Smashing Magazine's latest article about how they developed their "World of Programming" Infographic.

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The BP Oil Spill

Since it first erupted on the news, the media has been bombarding the public with all kinds of guesstimates about the scale and scope of the BP oil disaster and has spawned countless infographics trying to convey the size of the oil spill. If It Was My Home has created the simplest and easiest one I've come across, with no numbers or figures or comparisons to previous oil spills. All it is is a picture of the oil spill overlaid on Google Maps. Awesome, frightening, and definitely drives the message home in a clear and concise manner.

via Flowing Data

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Unemployment by State

http://datadrivenconsulting.com/js/protovis/cartogramemp.html

Here's a fun interactive infographic that displays two variables over time: absolute number of unemployed people per state and percentage of unemployed people compared to total labor force. It even throws in an extra bonus by displaying each state's bubble in its geographic location with respect to the others.

Link to the interactive infographic is here: http://datadrivenconsulting.com/js/protovis/cartogramemp.html

via Chart Porn

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Internet Addiction

Normally I'm not really a fan of the super tall infographics that have been spreading like wildfire all over the Internet, but this one actually does a really good job in terms of simplicity of design, color scheme and clarity. The only thing that isn't clear to me is its comparison of time spent online per month versus total number of hours available. Where and how are they getting these numbers? Are they taking the total number of Internet users and multiplying that by the average number of hours a person spends on the Internet per month? This one section makes me dubious without some clarity into how they came up with this comparison, but otherwise this graphic is a good example of clean design, if you must insist on the tall-infographic-covered-in-clip-art look.

via Geekologie

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Pie Chart Art

OK this one isn't an infographic per se, but I just loved the artistry and detail that went into this image.

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College Degree Density

Wow these past couple weeks have been busy! Oh well, I'm back for a little bit at least and I've got some graphs saved up to share. This one has been floating around the Internet for the past few days:

The unit of measurement is number of degrees per square mile, which in of itself isn't bad but it doesn't put the figures into perspective. What would be really fascinating is to compare that number with the total number of people living per square mile. For example, the top two cities in the graph are San Francisco and New York. As a Bay Area resident and a frequent visitor to New York, I can tell you that the overall density and number of people in New York City is way, way higher than the overall density of San Francisco. With so many people packed into such a small space, it makes sense that New York has a high number of graduates, but as a percentage this group may be just a tiny fraction of the overall population. Considering San Francisco has a small total population and population density than New York, it's all the more impressive that it ranks on the top of the list. (of course, as a native, I may be a bit biased in my perceptions, hehehe).

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