According to the Visual Teaching Alliance, 90 percent of information that comes to the brain is visual, so why are many of our handouts and presentations primarily text-based? This presentation will introduce infographics, short for information graphics, and demonstrate how they can visually, and more easily, represent complex information and make your handouts and presentations more meaningful to your audience. Some of the ideas for this presentation were borrowed from http://www.slideshare.net/dee987 and http://www.slideshare.net/ripetungi.

2. Today’s agenda …
1. Define infographics
2. Find infographics
3. Create infographics
Image Source: http://bit.ly/w3fTtK

3. Infographics - Information Graphics, 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 of 10 people quit their
diets in 7 weeks!

6. Percentage of People on a Diet
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3

7. Source: http://goo.gl/mjdzv

8. Which slide had the most impact?

9. Infographics
help present
complex
information
simply.
Source: http://goo.gl/RPdY

10. Why an Infographic?
Explain Current 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
Evolution of a trend or idea
trend or idea
Source: http://goo.gl/JYghL

12. Evolution of a
Simplify the complex idea
trend or
Source: http://goo.gl/OexDZ

13. Evolution of a
Compare A totrend or idea
B
Source: http://goo.gl/WBLBz

14. Evolution of a
Explain Current State of Affairs
trend or idea
Source: http://goo.gl/WBLBz

15. Some places to find 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 creating good 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/2.99 for 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 for infographics
• community for publishers, designers, and researchers
• create free custom infographics based on social media

25. Source: Wordle.net

26. Common Craft’s entertaining videos made
complex ideas easy to understand.

28. DIY Tips/Tools
• Carefully select 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

30. Let’s
Hangout!
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