Not particularly about infographics but there are some helpful suggestions for showing data accurately and reliably.
Essential reading for presenters, too.
Like it says - 9 tips for putting together an infographic. Also has some examples.
Via @johnmayo on Twitter.
Tips from Sneh Roy, a designer on producing effective infographics
A very lucid explanation why data is important and how it can tell stories that affect our view of the world and the actions we take.
Worth watching purely for the bits about Facebook updates and the world's first carbon-neutral volcano!
My son turned 4 this weekend and he now owns more Lego than Denmark. Great for building spaceships but also infographics, as it turns out!
Online tool for creating system or flow diagrams as well as concept maps and similar stuff. Download the results to your hard drive
IBM's data visualisation tool.
I think, when I've got this geolocation workshop together I'm going to focus on data vis. This seems like a good place to start.
An insight into how the 9/11 memorial was designed. The designers wanted to arrange the names so they were adjacent to the names of others they had connections with.
Jer Thorpe (this is from his blog) and Jake Barton designed a complex technical solution that's invisible to anyone visiting the memorial but essential in managing the combination of names and architectural design.
Nice looking resources on the fundamentals of dataviz for education and assessment.
Mashups comparing where locals take pictures of their home city with what tourists take snaps of.
These actually look better not zoomed completely in.
This group tracked 881 anonymised iphones during April 2011. These videos show the movements as a sort of glowing heat map.
The sample size is pretty small so I'm not sure what this is supposed to show, but as a an example of geolocated data viz, it's very attractive.
Community site for creating data visualisations, accessing data and other stuff. Work uploaded under Creative Commons license.
I've registered interest in the Labs part of this site - interested to see what these plug and play tools are going to look like.
Create and share web-based, interactive infographics. "Data in; brilliance out!" Video a little cheesey but it's a very interesting looking tool.
Via Bill Steele (@UWS_CAPD)
Hover over each "element" to view an example.
Nice explanatory piece from the Guardian's data-goonies saying data journalism "may be trending but it's not new" and that it's all about what stories you're trying to tell.
These are the "inforgraphics" tagged posts from 2toria. Illuminating critique on examples that demonstrate good and not so good practice in data visualisation.
Potentialm source of vector art for use in infographics and data viz
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These are my bookmarks about creating infographics. It's mostly blogs showcasing great examples, a few how-to guides and from time to time, I come across some useful tools.
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