Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
Kerry Gallagher describes and explains her infographic activity.
Knoema is a knowledge platform. The basic idea is to connect data with analytical and presentation tools. As a result, we end with one uniformed platform for users to access, present and share data-driven content.
Within Knoema, we capture most aspects of a typical data use cycle: accessing data from multiple sources, bringing relevant indicators into a common space, visualizing figures, applying analytical functions, creating a set of dashboards, and presenting the outcome.
WordSift helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. We have also integrated it with a few other functions, such as visualization of word thesaurus relationships and Google® searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text.
You can create infographics - visual representations of data - from scratch using free web tools. LIbrary consultant and educator Linda W. Braun takes you step by step through making your own infographic using easel.ly and info.gram.
When students create infographics, they are using information, visual, and technology literacies.
ChartsBin is a web-based data visualization tool that will allow everyone to quickly and easily create rich interactive visualizations with their own data. You can then share your interactive visualizations with others by embedding them in websites, blogs or sharing via Facebook or Twitter.
Create and share visual ideas online. Vhemes are visual themes. Drag and drop a vheme onto your canvas for easy creation of your visual idea.
Piktochart is among the first online web applications to autonomize the creation of infographics. Its vision is to allow the user the flexibility and control over what information will be viewed online. Limited feature freemium available.
Teachinghistory.org is designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom.
With the addition of video and map support, Infogr.am is a powerful tool for creating visual displays of data and research.
Information graphics, visual representations of data known as infographics, keep the web going these days. They're straight to the point, usually factually interesting and often give you a wake-up call as to what those statistics really mean.
A community of creative people making sense of complex issues
through data and design
A library of data sets and visualization covering a really wide assortment of information