Infographics introduction
- 1. Infographics A visual representation of data or information. Short for "information graphic" Source: http://www.macmillandictionary.com
- 2. What is an infographic?
- 4. Types of Infographics USA Today Snapshots How did you break your phone?
- 9. Types of Infographics Gameboard Metaphor
- 10. Types of Infographics Personal Preference
- 11. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Evaluating some sample Infographics
- 12. What to look for? • What information is conveyed? • What features do good examples have in common? • Is anything hard to understand? • What goes unnoticed? Is misleading? • What do I like about it? • Where else can it show and not tell?
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- 24. Source: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Good Medicine Magazine
- 26. Tips for Designing Infographics • Be concise - Convey one idea really well. • Be visual - Use a good size for making it sharable online. • Be smarter - Don't make readers have to work to understand what they are seeing. • Be transparent - Cite your data source and don't mislead your readers. • Be different - Use bar, line, and pie charts sparingly.
- 27. Tips for Designing Infographics • Be accurate - Don't mislead with improper scale of shapes. • Be attractive - Use illustrations and photos to enhance the data. Use san serif instead of serif fonts. Use eye pleasing color combinations (font color & background). • Be varied - Use a theme that represents your topic. • Be gracious - Cite your sources and give yourself credit too. • Be creative - Use good tools easel.ly, pictochart and infogr.am
- 28. Planning Strategies • What are the components that you should include? • What do I want my reader to learn? • How is the information presented? (Graphically, with text, image, etc.) • What are the challenges?