Creating Infographics

Creating Infographics for more Powerful Handouts or PresentationsPresenter: Diana SilveiraNovare Library Services Source: http://on.mash.to/LOJLMD

Trends in Dieting • 4 of 10 people quit diets in 7 weeks

4 OF 10 PEOPLE WILL QUIT A DIET IN THEFIRST 7 WEEKS

Percentage of People on a Diet12010080604020 0 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3

Source: http://www.nexercise.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/new-years-fail.html

A Picture is Worth A Thousand WordsPicture Source: http://huff.to/LOLTnJ

Agenda- What is an infographics?- Where can you find existing infographics?- How can you create your own infographics? http://bit.ly/w3fTtK

Why an Infographic? • Capture the current state of affairs • Compare A to B • Demonstrate the evolution of a trend, idea or industry • Simplify the complexhttp://bit.ly/zGxOjn

Why an Infographic? Compare A to B Evolution of a trend or idea Simplify the complex Explain Current State of Affairshttp://bit.ly/yCah7pand http://slidesha.re/xy1vUJ

Simplify the Complex http://visual.ly/improve-your-credit

Benefits of an Infographic • Easily shareable • Increase your “views” & “shares” • Easy to understand • Make an impactImage source: http://bit.ly/LOP3rr

SOURCES FOR INFOGRAPHICSImage source: http://bit.ly/LOQ2YA

Visual.ly http://visual.ly/ and http://bit.ly/zSyhXi

http://www.coolinfographics.com/http://bit.ly/yG4IL8

http://www.smallmeans.com/new-york-times-infographics/ andhttp://www.nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/index.html

Includes tutorials http://bit.ly/yStnZ8 http://flowingdata.com/category/visualization/

http://www.good.is/infographicshttp://bit.ly/y3qML2

A community of creative people making sense of complex issuesthrough data and design http://www.visualizing.org/ http://invent.ge/wcV0Yc

http://visualoop.tumblr.com/http://infographiclist.com/http://bit.ly/LOSRsNImage source: http://bit.ly/LOSNJn

http://pinterest.com/search/?q=infographics

CREATING YOUR OWN

3 KEYS TO SUCCESS http://bit.ly/xJhAhE

Tips • Keep it simple! • Show don’t tell • Have a point & make it • Research • Cite within infographic • Purpose • Simple call to actionhttp://bit.ly/PqZw0c & http://bit.ly/VdEAfs

Design • Plan & Sketch before you start • Make it visually appealing • Include your URLSource: http://bit.ly/UjMrWD

• Click and Drag Graphics • WYSWYG Editor http://creately.com/

PiktoChart Free and Pro versionshttp://app.piktochart.com/ Free offers limited design options

http://infogr.am/

• Create interactive maps without Google • 3D maps • Add symbols, figures, characters• Create interactive maps without Google• Share and embed• Developer API http://kartograph.org/ http://geocommons.com/maps/143445

• $4.99@month/2.99 for students/ Free Trial Available http://www.wolframalpha.com/pro/

Many Eyes (IBM Research) Strengths: • Upload own data or use existing • Variety of Visualization Options • Publish Interactive visualizations to your own sitehttp://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/

Daytum • Quick and Easy • Small Sets of Data• iPhone App – visualization on the go

Wordle Wordle.net

TRULY CREATING YOUR OWN

Need A Cheat Sheethttp://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing/how-to-create-outstanding-modern-infographics/http://bit.ly/GPmk4Ghttp://bit.ly/LOP3rr

Tools to Create - DIY • PowerPoint or other Presentation Software • Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator • Inkscape (inkscape.org)

CAREFULLY SELECT FONTS

Source: Julian Hansen http://bit.ly/P0rvTp

Choosing FontsFont Sources: http://delicious.com/dee987/fonts

COLORS – OR PALETTES

http://bit.ly/T5kiaL

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

SELECT VISUALS

Need some graphics?Sources:Creative Commonshttp://www.squidoo.com/free-web-graphicsHttp://openclipart.orghttp://www.iconarchive.com/http://medialoot.com/item/vector-infographic-kit/http://www.kozzi.com/freehttp://dreamstime.comhttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/?CTT=97

Edit Visuals• Photoshop• GIMP• Slashup.com• Pixlr

Need some data• DataMarket.com• Datacatalogs.org• Numberof.net• Gallup.com• Census.gov

QUESTIONS?Source: http://bit.ly/LPaFE6

Diana Silveira diana@novarelibrary.com slideshare.net/dee987 delicious.com/dee987/infographicsfacebook.com/NovareLibraryServices 877-816-9638

Creating Infographics

by Diana Silveira on Sep 20, 2012

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