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Making Great (and Effective) Infographics

Published on Nov 20, 2015

Tips and tools for making infographics, for Prof. C. Fissore's ENVS100 at Whittier College, Fall 2014

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Making Great (and Effective) Infographics

Anne Cong-Huyen, PhD | Digital Scholar | DigLibArts
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Why infographics?

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Make complicated information:

  • accessible in small digestable bits of information
  • appealing in textual & visual form
  • interesting and less boring in an engaging way
  • persuasive to audiences
  • fun to share
13 Reasons why your brain craves infographics: http://neomam.com/interactive/13reasons/
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Steps to making an infographic:

1. Gather your data

Do your research.
Consult multiple sources. Cross check and verify information. Make sure your work will be accurate!
Cite all your sources. (Get in the habit of using good citational practices.)
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2. Organize your data

1. Clean your data.
2. Consider organizing information into a spreadsheet (which will help make visualizations later).
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3. Identify the purpose

What will your infographic do? Are you just clarifying complex data? Explaining a process? Highlighting a trend? Making an argument?

You should think of this purpose as you organize your information and think about how you will represent it visually.
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4. Determine your visual approach

Will you need visualizations? Consolidating large amounts of statistics and data. How? charts? graphs? word clouds? maps?

Potential tools:
-https://datawrapper.de/ (sleek interactive)
-http://piktochart.com/
-http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/
-http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory

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5. Plan the Infographic

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6. Share it

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Handy tools:

Infographic

Some of these are pay services:

Infogr.am for example, you have to pay to download your documents.

Piktochart has templates for purchase.

Canva makes you purchase images

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