Infograpics - a short history

Infographicsa short historyPage 1 | Infographics | April 2012

DefinitionInfographics = information graphics “graphic visual representations of information, data* or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly” - Wikipedia*aka data visualisationBar charts and maps, line graphs, pie charts, system diagrams, tables…Page 2 | Infographics | April 2012

PurposeShifts the balance between perception and cognition to take fulleradvantage of the brains abilitiesPage 3 | Infographics | April 2012

PrinciplesProximity Objects that are close together are perceived as a groupSimilarity Objects that share similar attributes (e.g. color or shape) are perceived as a groupConnection Objects that are connected (e.g. by a line) are perceived as a groupPage 4 | Infographics | April 2012

PrinciplesEnclosure Objects that appear to have a boundary around them (e.g. formed by a line or area of common colour) are perceived as a groupClosure Open structures are perceived as closed, complete, and regular whenever there is a way that they can reasonably be interpreted as suchContinuity Objects that are aligned together or appear to be a continuation of one another are perceived as a groupConnection Objects that are connected (e.g. by a line) are perceived as a groupPage 5 | Infographics | April 2012

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OriginsCave paintings!Maps pre-date writing by several millenniaAn early infographic that made a difference…In 1857, English nurse Florence Nightingale used information graphics persuading Queen Victoria to improve conditions in military hospitals, principally the Coxcomb chart, a combination of stacked bar and pie charts, depicting the number and causes of deaths during each month of the Crimean War.Page 7 | Infographics | April 2012

OriginsPage 8 | Infographics | April 2012

Modern infographicsPage 9 | Infographics | April 2012

Research centricLauren Manning, a New York based designer, exploresvarious methods to visualise one single data set for herthesis. Food Consumed: “It’s like comparing apples to oranges.” This phrase is the best way to describe the current state of data visualizations. …Instead of seeing many excellent visualizations of all different data sets, what if you could see tons of visualizations of the same data set? What new comparisons, knowledge and structure might be developed from this?Page 10 | Infographics | April 2012

Research centricLauren Manning, a New York based designer, exploresvarious methods to visualise one single data set for herthesis. Food Consumed: “It’s like comparing apples to oranges.” This phrase is the best way to describe the current state of data visualizations. …Instead of seeing many excellent visualizations of all different data sets, what if you could see tons of visualizations of the same data set? What new comparisons, knowledge and structure might be developed from this?Page 11 | Infographics | April 2012

Research centricPage 12 | Infographics | April 2012

CustomisablePage 13 | Infographics | April 2012

Public dataresearch centric and attributed to multiple sourcesPage 14 | Infographics | April 2012

Attributed to multiple sources Blog data comes from a variety of online sources, including LiveJournal, MSN Spaces, MySpace, Blogger, Flickr, Technorati, Feedster, Ice Rocket, and Google.Page 15 | Infographics | April 2012

RSPCA Freedom Food sales data visualisation We produced assets to reach out to bloggers and online influencers, providing visuals to support a statistics based PR story. Very successful campaign results for RSPCA.Page 16 | Infographics | April 2012

Channel 4 ‘Ask the Chancellors’ debatePage 17 | Infographics | April 2012

Datacopter Twitter visualisation appfor Channel 4Page 18 | Infographics | April 2012

Datacopter Twitter visualisation app V2.0Page 19 | Infographics | April 2012

Barclaycard: influencer mappingPage 20 | Infographics | April 2012

notaninfographic.tumblr.comPage 21 | Infographics | April 2012

Thank you!@bethgranterhttp://delicious.com/bethgranter/infographicsPage 22 | Infographics | April 2012

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