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PRESENTER: Justin Karp, University of Maryland/WJLA DESCRIPTION: Easy Infographic Tools for Journalism Students. Part of Journalism Interactive 2013 conference Teach-A-Thon. Educators were given 5 minutes to talk about curriculum ideas, tools, class assignments and more to help digital journalism educators. Journalisminteractive.com
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Show, don’t tell!Or: All the easy infographic tools you could ever want (and likely already need).
Justin KarpABC7 News – Washington, D.C.University of Maryland-College Park
INFOGRAPHICSOr: Pictures are way easier than numbers!
Tableau Public www.tableausoftware.com
Free, desktop-based chart and data viz builder
Import CSV and XLS files to build huge charts
Projects stored in the cloud and embeddable into your website
Free training webinars
Infogr.am www.infogr.am
Free, cloud based infographic maker
Import or construct data within the app to generate interactive charts
Dozens of customizable charts, graphs and pictogram templates available
In and out in five minutes
iCharts www.icharts.com
Much like Tableau Public, but all web-based
Input data on the site or import it from your data set
Import graphics to built totally custom, visually dynamic charts and graphics
MAPS
It’s like TomTom. Except it helps you instead of frustrating you.
Google Maps maps.google.com
Typically the easiest and quickest mapping platform
Embeddable maps in less than five minutes
Tremendous platform for open, crowdsourced map projects
Esri www.arcgis.com/home
Visually rich, dynamic and embeddable maps
Desktop and cloud based systems
Create custom apps to compare two maps, integrate social media, etc.
BatchGeo www.batchgeo.com
Import a list of addresses from an XLS file to a Google Map
Good to aggregate multiple points of interest in a short time