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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.
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Creating Infographics for More Powerful Handouts and Presentations
1. Define infographics
2. Find infographics
3. Create infographics
Today’s agenda …
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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’
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4 out of 10 people quit their diets in 7 weeks!
4 out of 10 people quit
their diets in 7 weeks!
Week 1 Week 2 Week 30
20
40
60
80
100
120
Percentage of People on a Diet
Which slide had the most impact?
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Infographics help present
complex information
simply.
Why an Infographic?
Explain Current State
of Affairs
Compare A to B
Evolution of a trend or idea
Simplify the complex
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Evolution of a trend or ideaEvolution of a trend or
idea
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Evolution of a trend or ideaSimplify the complex
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Evolution of a trend or ideaCompare A to B
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Evolution of a trend or ideaExplain Current State of
Affairs
Evolution of a trend or idea
Some places to find infographics
http://visual.ly/http://www.coolinfographics.com/http://www.smallmeans.com/new-york-times-infographics/http://flowingdata.com/category/visualizationhttp://visualoop.tumblr.com/http://www.good.is/infographicshttp://www.visualizing.org/http://www.infographicsarchive.com/http://pinterest.com/search/?q=infographics
Evolution of a trend or idea
Creating Infographics
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
• It is an art form
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• Upload own data or use existing• Variety of visualization options• Publish interactive visualizations to your own site
Many Eyes (IBM Research)
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• Collect, categorize, and communicate your data
• Small data sets• iPhone App – visualization on the go
Daytum
Source: http://daytum.com/
$4.99 a month/2.99 for students/ Free Trial Available
Source: http://www.wolframalpha.com/pro/
• Create interactive maps without Google• 3D maps• Add symbols, figures, characters
Source: http://kartograph.org/
• showcase for infographics• community for publishers, designers, and
researchers• create free custom infographics based on social
media
Source: Wordle.net
Common Craft’s entertaining videos made complex ideas easy to
understand.
Create your own animations – easily.
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
Quick demos on …
Visual.lyIntel
Visualize.meCreatelyInkscape
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