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SPN Search Results. HighWire Search. How to Create an Infographic on a Budget. Looking for information on how to create an infographic on a budget? Well, this is the blog for you. When done correctly, infographics are great for visualizing data and equally as useful in attracting backlinks and social media shares. I will preface this post by saying that the flood of low quality content (especially infographics) is eroding the effectiveness of this type of content marketing. Like any other type of content, when you take the time to research and curate the data you provide and the audience you are targeting, you will see a much better return on your effort.

Infographics for content marketing have been on the rise, as illustrated in the above Google trends graph. This trend is expected to continue on this trajectory over the coming years. With this rise in popularity comes the potential for a lot of… well, crap. How to Create an Infographic Idea Finding ideas for infographics might seem easy enough until you realize how many have already been done 1000 times over. Alteryx Community Knowledgebase | Core Data Bundle Documentation, eCab Meeting. Analytics Gallery | Public Gallery. How Agencies Should Use Data In Content Strategy 06/25/2014. We all know content strategy is the vehicle that drives marketing where it needs to go. And like most vehicles, it needs periodic tune-ups and adjustments, a never-ending evaluation to make sure your content is running in peak form. But if you want the fastest, most powerful engine on the block, you need to put super fuel in the tank – with intelligent, nimble data. The days of guesswork are over.

Running quarterly campaigns and waiting months to see results belong to an obsolete era. With data in hand, you have the power to drive fast – modifying content on the fly, identifying new audiences and targeting them with razor-sharp campaigns. So what’s the best way to get started? What (and Who) Is Popular How often do you look at the data for your blog and social media posts? Analyze everything from titles, publication days/times, content categories, authors, comments and shares. Relevancy, Segmentation & Precision Campaigns Test, Test, Test Don’t Forget Offline Content. 22 free tools for data visualization and analysis. Google Refine What it does: Google Refine can be described as a spreadsheet on steroids for taking a first look at both text and numerical data. Like Excel, it can import and export data in a number of formats including tab- and comma-separate text files and Excel, XML and JSON files. (Update 8/27/13: This project has been turned over to the open-source community and is transitioning to OpenRefine.

Google Refine can make data 'cleaner' by helping to find errors or different versions of the same proper names. Refine features several built-in algorithms that find text items that are spelled differently but actually should be grouped together. There are also numerical options that offer quick and easy overviews of data distributions. Beyond data housekeeping, Google Refine offers some useful analysis tools, such as sorting and filtering. Finally, while this is a browser-based application, it works with files on your desktop, so your data remains local. Skill level: Advanced beginner. Special Tabulation Examples from Statistics of U.S. Businesses Data-Business & Industry-US Census Bureau.

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