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Did fancy infographics just get democratised? Good Infographic Design: Creating Addicting Infographic Examples. Charts. Graphs. Spreadsheets. Most organizations have important data to present to their clients and customers. Yet we live in a world where we are bombarded with information. Who has time to read and comprehend all those charts and diagrams? Good Infographics are a communications trend that illustrates data in an attractive, easily digestible format. Through unique combination of images and words, infographic design is a powerful storytelling tool. Why ♥ Infographics? Ceci Dadisman, the director of marketing and public relations at Palm Beach Opera in West Palm Beach, FL, used an infographic design for the first time recently to promote her group’s 50th Anniversary Season.

Done clearly and intelligently, good infographics can not only be an efficient way to convey information, but they also can help create an emotional connection. Jeff Ferzoco should know. Secondly, as an online creature, infographics are easily shareable and therefore inherently social media friendly. 30+ Really Useful Infographics Tools & Resources. Infographic credit: Ivan Cash Infographics are everywhere! Whether you’re a fan of them or not , infographics have become a staple of web content and are engaged in a seemingly endless love affair with social media. As digital marketers, we’re interested in the content marketing potential of infographics, which can generate thousands of pageviews, social media shares, backlinks and capture mindshare.

If you’re interested in developing your own infographics to reap these potential benefits, we put together this list of 30+ useful infographic tools and resources to help you on your way. We included a well-rounded mix of charts & graphs generators, graphics programs, mind-mapping tools, and resources for finding data sets and statistics. Whether you’re just looking for simple online charting tools or seeking complex data visualization software, the list below has got you covered! (Listed below in Alphabetical order!) Comments(12) COMPARISON: 30 free tools for data vis & analysis. November 7, 2013 03:21 PM ET The chart below originally accompanied our story 22 free tools for data visualization and analysis (April 20, 2011). We're updating it as we cover additional tools, including 8 cool tools for data analysis, visualization and presentation (March 27, 2012) and Six useful JavaScript libraries for maps, charts and other data visualizations (March 6, 2013).

Click through to those articles for full tool reviews. Features: You can sort the chart by clicking on any column header once to sort in ascending order and a second time to sort by descending (browser JavaScript required). Skill levels are represented as numbers from easiest to most difficult to learn and use: Users who are comfortable with basic spreadsheet tasks Users who are technically proficient enough not to be frightened off by spending a couple of hours learning a new applicationPower usersUsers with coding experience or specialized knowledge in a field like GIS or network analysis. Eight Free tools for Teachers to Make Awesome Infographics. 1- Easel.ly This is a great tool that allows users to create visually rich infographics from pre-designed themes. It is very easy to use and only drag and drop. It actually supports Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. 2- Stat Planet This one here allows users to create amazing visualisations and share them with others.

It can be used either within your browser or download the software for free. 3- Hohli This is an awesome chart maker. 4- Creately This is also a great tool in creating diagrams and flow charts. 5- Many Eyes This is one of the easiest of them all. 6- Wordle This is a text based visualisation tool. 7- Tableau This works just on Windows. 8- Inkspace This is also a free infographic creation tool. Infographics and charts - interactive data visualization | Infogr.am.

Making idiot-proof infographics with Infogr.am. Let's say you want to compare the airspeed velocity of various unladen swallows. You could put that data into a spreadsheet, or present it using a graph. Chances are you'll pick the latter. The question is, how do you create a graph that not only looks nice, but presents said data in a coherent, easy to understand way? You could go the traditional route, and make something basic in Microsoft Office or your productivity suite of choice. Infogr.am takes the same approach that Tumblr took to blogging, by turning the otherwise daunting task of creating great infographics into a process that's dead-simple.

The Infogr.am interface—inspired, no-doubt, by Apple's online iCloud portal—gives users the option of creating either a new chart or full-blown infographic, with five available templates to choose from at launch. The interesting part, however, is how graphs are edited and portrayed. Infogr.am: Another Online Editor of Interactive Infographics. Piktochart. Creately - Diagrams / Collaboration. Cacoo - diagrams / collaboration.

Online Diagram Software and Flowchart Software - Gliffy. Gallery | Create Infographics | Visual.ly. Charts Made Easy. Data Made Social. | iCharts. Infogr.am. Venngage. Venngage: And Yet Another Online Infographics Editor. After 2 very similar posts in a very small timeframe, featuring Easel.ly and infogr.am respectively, I seem not to be able to follow the 'automatic infographics editing' scene fast enough.

Automatic resume infographics creator visualize.me has just launched Venngage [venngage.com], which aims to empower people to create beautiful infographics in minutes, so that "creating infographics [becomes] as easy as creating a Powerpoint presentation". As a unique feature, Venngage's visual elements are displayed as pure HTML elements, which should positively influence SEO stats, page ranks and back links. As with infogr.am, venngage is able to directly link custom data values to data-driven graphs, but offers more visualization techniques that go beyond the traditional pie chart, line graph and bar chart, and includes sophisticated techniques such as treemaps, bubble charts, word clouds, and the like. Beautiful Word Clouds.

Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles. Easel.ly | create and share visual ideas online. Visual.ly. Chart API. DataVis Web Apps. A dashboard is a single screen showing the status of an application. At a glance you should see what’s going well and what areas are struggling. Customer retention is down. Sales are up. Complaints are at an all time high. They’re the application equivalent of homepages, and present many of the same political challenges. Every department wants their pixels. I’ve designed many such dashboards, enough to prepare a talk summarising my findings. There are many points put forward in the slide deck, the biggest lesson I can offer is iteration. Iteration and user feedback is valuable in all areas of design, but none more so than dashboards. Three other points I’d add to that presentation were I to give it again… 1.

Every figure presented will result in another question being asked. 2. A good way to end up with a crap dashboard is to assume that every day is “off the charts”. 3.Solid first. Recommended Reading. Public Data Explorer. Many Eyes. Better World Flux - where progress flows.

Hohli: Online Charts Builder. Hohli Online Charts Builder New version: Try new version of Charts Builder, it based on new Google Charts API Load From Image URL: Chart Data can't equal to original, but very similar to it. Only for images on chart.apis.google.com Chart Type: 3D Pie charts Lines Bar charts Pie charts For Pie Charts with labels choose 1000x300 or 800x375 size Venn diagrams Scatter plots Radar charts Chart Size: 320x240 Horizontal 1000x300 800x375 600x500 320x240 Vertical 300x1000 375x800 500x600 240x320 Square 546x546 400x400 300x300 200x200 Chart Ads: Data: Should be consists only positive numbers, use minus one (-1) for missing value, separated by coma, space or semi(,; ), e.g.: 23, 432, 456, 341 For Lines (pairs): Input data as x-axis and y-axis coordinates, e.g.: x1,y1, x2,y2, x3,y3 Title: Use a pipe character (|) to force a line break in title.

Background: Chart is ready you can save it as image Right click on the chart Select "Save image as" Save the image to your computer © 2011 Charts Builder. Developed by Anton Shevchuk. Visualize Your Data And Speed Up Your Site With Dynamic Chart Libraries » Design Festival. 75+ Tools for Visualizing your Data, CSS, Flash, jQuery, PHP. Most people would agree that the old adage “A picture is worth a thousand words” is also true for web based solutions.

There should be no discussion – Charts and Graphs are ideal to visualize data in order to quickly deliver an overview and communicate key messages. Whatever type of data presentation you prefer or suits you data (pie charts, bubble charts, bar graphs, network diagrams etc.), there are many different options but how do you get started and what is technologically possible? In this article tripwire magazine present more than 75 Tools for Visualizing your data on a website and most of the options available will be covered. If you are aware of a tool, script etc. that deserves to be added to the list I would kindly ask you to leave a comment to everyone’s benefit.

Advertisement Introduction Images says more than a thousands words. The article has been organised into the following sections. How to visualize you data using JavaScript-based solutions jQuery Sparklines mooCSSChart.