The document discusses different types of visualizations used to communicate data including line graphs, pie charts, bar charts, and bubble charts. It explains that visualizing data makes it easier for the brain to understand, grabs audience attention, and increases website hits. Finally, it lists several platforms that can be used to create visualizations like Pik2Chart, Silk, Adobe Illustrator, Google Charts, and Infogr.am.

3. Visual Communication
Borrowed from Eva Constantaras

4. How do we communicate data?

5. Line graphs
Pie chart
Change over time, Trends
Share of whole
E.g. Average temperature of each year.
E.g. Causes of death among young
adults.
Charts, graphs, and etc
Borrowed from Eva Constantaras

6. Bar chart
Bubble chart
Comparing results
Comparing quantity by volume
E.g. Overview of road budget
compared to military budget.
E.g. Crimes per province.
Charts, graphs, and etc
Borrowed from Eva Constantaras

7. Pictorial chart
Ratio per population
E.g. Rate of unemployed adults in a
population
Charts, graphs, and etc
Borrowed from Eva Constantaras

8. Why visualize?
Borrowed from Eva Constantaras
The brain likes images.
Makes the data easier to understand
Grabs the audience attention
Increase website hits

9. Charts, graphs, and etc

10. Platforms
Is there any easy platform to do it?

11. Platforms
Pik2Chart
Silk
Adobe Illustrator
Google Charts
Many Eyes
Choosel
Exhibit
Javascript
InfoViz Toolkit
Infogr.am
CartoDB
MapBox
Quantum GIS
OpenStreetMap
Timeline JS
Timeflow
Gephi
NodeXL
InstantAtlas

12. Infogr.am