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Creating Infographics for Powerful Handouts or Presentations
The document provides an overview of infographics, including definitions, purposes, and methods for creating them. It emphasizes the importance of simplicity, clarity, and effective presentation of complex information through visual means. Additionally, it lists various sources and tools for finding and creating infographics.
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- 2. Today’s agenda … 1. Define infographics 2. Find infographics 3. Create infographics Image Source: http://bit.ly/w3fTtK
- 3. Infographics - InformationGraphics, an umbrella term for illustrations and charts that instruct people, which otherwise would be difficult or impossible with only text. See ‘information visualization’ Source: http://goo.gl/EHczO
- 4. 4 out of10 people quit their diets in 7 weeks!
- 6. Percentage of Peopleon a Diet 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3
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- 8. Which slide hadthe most impact?
- 9. Infographics help present complex information simply. Source: http://goo.gl/RPdY
- 10. Why an Infographic? ExplainCurrent Evolution of a State of Affairs trend or idea Simplify the complex Compare A to B Sources: http://bit.ly/yCah7p and http://slidesha.re/xy1vUJ
- 11. Evolution of a Evolutionof a trend or idea trend or idea Source: http://goo.gl/JYghL
- 12. Evolution of a Simplifythe complex idea trend or Source: http://goo.gl/OexDZ
- 13. Evolution of a CompareA totrend or idea B Source: http://goo.gl/WBLBz
- 14. Evolution of a ExplainCurrent State of Affairs trend or idea Source: http://goo.gl/WBLBz
- 15. Some places tofind infographics http://visual.ly/ http://www.coolinfographics.com/ http://www.smallmeans.com/new-york-times-infographics/ http://flowingdata.com/category/visualization http://visualoop.tumblr.com/ http://www.good.is/infographics Evolution of a http://www.visualizing.org/ trend or idea http://www.infographicsarchive.com/ http://pinterest.com/search/?q=infographics
- 16. Evolution of a trend or idea Creating Infographics
- 17. Tips for creatinggood infographics • Keep it simple! • Have a point & make it clear • Decide on a color scheme • Research • Cite within the infographic • Think of it as a visual essay • Purpose: Convey meaning behind complex data • Break things down into digestible pieces • Show results and inspire action • Include your URL • Create interest in topic Source: http://goo.gl/t2QR
- 18. • Upload own data or use existing Many Eyes • Variety of visualization options (IBM Research) • Publish interactive visualizations to your own site Source: http://goo.gl/8pLt
- 20. Daytum • Collect, categorize, and communicate your data • Small data sets • iPhone App – visualization on the go Source: http://daytum.com/
- 21. $4.99 a month/2.99for students/ Free Trial Available Source: http://www.wolframalpha.com/pro/
- 22. • Create interactive maps without Google • 3D maps • Add symbols, figures, characters Source: http://kartograph.org/
- 23. • Click and Drag Graphics • WYSWYG Editor Source: http://creately.com/
- 24. • showcase forinfographics • community for publishers, designers, and researchers • create free custom infographics based on social media
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- 26. Common Craft’s entertainingvideos made complex ideas easy to understand.
- 28. DIY Tips/Tools • Carefullyselect Fonts and Colors • Photos – Creative Commons, http://search.creativecommons.org/ – Dreamstime, www.dreamstime.com – Open Clipart, http://openclipart.org/ • Photo editing software – Photoshop CS6 Beta is free, GIMP, Chrome Image Editor etc. – PowerPoint or other presentation software – Inkscape (inkscape.org/) is an SVG graphics editor
- 29. Quick demos on… Visual.ly Intel Visualize.me Creately Inkscape
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