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Creating Infographics for More Powerful Handouts and Presentations

Creating Infographics for Powerful Handouts or Presentations

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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

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1. Define infographics

2. Find infographics

3. Create infographics

Today’s agenda …

Image Source: http://bit.ly/w3fTtK

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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’

Source: http://goo.gl/EHczO

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4 out of 10 people quit their diets in 7 weeks!

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4 out of 10 people quit

their diets in 7 weeks!

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Week 1 Week 2 Week 30

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Percentage of People on a Diet

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Source: http://goo.gl/mjdzv

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Which slide had the most impact?

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Source: http://goo.gl/RPdY

Infographics help present

complex information

simply.

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Why an Infographic?

Explain Current State

of Affairs

Compare A to B

Evolution of a trend or idea

Simplify the complex

Sources: http://bit.ly/yCah7pand http://slidesha.re/xy1vUJ

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Source: http://goo.gl/JYghL

Evolution of a trend or ideaEvolution of a trend or

idea

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Source: http://goo.gl/OexDZ

Evolution of a trend or ideaSimplify the complex

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Source: http://goo.gl/WBLBz

Evolution of a trend or ideaCompare A to B

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Source: http://goo.gl/WBLBz

Evolution of a trend or ideaExplain Current State of

Affairs

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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

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Evolution of a trend or idea

Creating Infographics

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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

Source: http://goo.gl/t2QR

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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)

Source: http://goo.gl/8pLt

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• Collect, categorize, and communicate your data

• Small data sets• iPhone App – visualization on the go

Daytum

Source: http://daytum.com/

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$4.99 a month/2.99 for students/ Free Trial Available

Source: http://www.wolframalpha.com/pro/

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• Create interactive maps without Google• 3D maps• Add symbols, figures, characters

Source: http://kartograph.org/

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• Click and Drag Graphics• WYSWYG Editor

Source: http://creately.com/

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• showcase for infographics• community for publishers, designers, and

researchers• create free custom infographics based on social

media

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Source: Wordle.net

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Common Craft’s entertaining videos made complex ideas easy to

understand.

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Create your own animations – easily.

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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

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Quick demos on …

Visual.lyIntel

Visualize.meCreatelyInkscape

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Let’s Hangout!

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