Cool Infographics - Blog A Beautiful WWW Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. Top 35 Flickr Groups for Infographics and Data Visualization Infographics are here to stay. More and more we see it trough the popularity that this kind of content reaches on Blog posts, Twitter and other social media networks, driving traffic and promoting great discussions on every kind of subject. And one of the best places to find tons of new infographics, maps, charts and other forms of data visualization goodies is, without question, Flickr Groups. Today, we bring you a major round-up of the best 35 Flickr Groups to find all kinds of designs, either from major newspapers and magazine, personal portfolios or vintage maps and graphics. Even so, we tried to gather Groups that have some level of interest besides those common submissions, so, we hope you enjoy them! General Stuff Infografistas.com / Infographics News The Group description says it all: a place where we can upload our favourite graphic or anything interesting to comment. FlowingData Info Graphics InfoVis GDS Digital Infographics Social Media Charts & Graphs Infografia | Infographics
Understanding Mankind with 30 Awesome Interactive Designs and Tools This is a special guest post by Tiago Veloso from Visual Loop – a non-stop stream of Infographics, Maps, Charts and many other Visualization Goodies, with lots of new posts everyday. User submissions are always welcome, opened to artists and designers from all over the world. Be sure to check out Tiago’s first massive hit on Inspired Mag – Info-Visualization Through the Eyes and Talent of 10 Brazilian Designers Among the large number of data-visualization designs that seem to grow everyday, the Interactive Infographics are my favorites, specially because of the incredible amount of information they can represent. So, I decided to select 30 of those amazing resources, some of them quite well-known, some maybe not. In this selection, I tried to focus on general issues, in a Global perspective – there are hundreds of excellent resources for more local realities, specially inside the websites of the main news agencies. Environment Breathing Earth Evolution of renewable energy Road Map to Harmony
Space, the Ultimate Visual Frontier: 70+ Amazing Infographics Since my last guest post here, there were a lot of events filled with infographics that could be the focus of this month’s mega-selection. The terrible earthquake in Japan and the nuclear threat that followed, the escalation of the military operations in Libya, Apple’s anniversary, the new chapters of the Browser Wars, and that’s just to mention a few. However, despite so many possible subjects, I decided to dedicate today’s roundup to mankind’s ultimate frontier: Space. After all, it’s been already 50 years since the beginning of manned space exploration, so, it’s only fair we join the celebration with a selection of awesome visualizations and infographics, collected from all over the world! Hope you enjoy! Space Exploration A look back at half-century of achievements, and some thoughts on what the future looks like to NASA, facing some budget cuts for the past years. Humans in space: results of the past 50 years | Via 50th Anniversary of the First Human Spaceflight | Via The first Hero
10 Coolest Typographic Infographics A picture is worth a thousand words. But when that picture is itself made of words, your mileage may vary. Take the case of type-based infographics. Bad use of type clutters an image; it acts as decoration – yet becomes a roadblock to information transfer. 1. Unsurprisingly, one of the best uses of type in graphics is to convey information about type itself. 2. Utilizing a different trope of scientific-diagram-turned-font-infovis, the Periodic Table attempts to organize fonts by relationship and complexity. 3. This massive flowchart of fonts is arguably the most useful typeface infographic and definitely the most sly. 4. If typeface tutorials borrow from science diagrams, certainly science can borrow back. 5. The abstract landscape of human inquiry also finds form through type. 6. Type also enhances maps of physical geography. 7. 8. This graphic uses text as a unit to help describe scale. 9. Type can also be used to compactly add value to visualizations of large quantities of data. 10.
What Your Web Design Says About You (Infographic) Font and color choices in a website say certain things about the owner of the site. Though colors and symbols may have different meanings in other cultures, this only reaffirms the notion that design choices do affect the perception of the user, which in turn affects the message attempting to be conveyed. Here is an infographic that delves into the meanings of fonts and colors in the context of web design. Click to enlarge. Related Content About the Author Infographic of the Day: Twitter Tracks the Entire Country's Mood | Co.Design Every tweet, no matter how trivial, reveals the writer's mood, through word choice--It can be as obvious as "happy" or as subtle as "diamond." Now imagine if you could take that knowledge, scale it up to the entire Twitter-verse, and use it to gauge the entire country's mood? That's exactly what Alan Mislove, a computer scientist, at Northeastern University, did, using 300 million tweets in real time. Check it out in action, over time--you can actually see moods rising at the end of the work day, and that same pattern gets repeated across time zones: Though it seems impossibly hard, the methodology was actually quite straightforward. Mislove and his team started with a scale, previously devised by psychologists via polling, which assigns mood scores to 600 English words. Mislove then used that scale to analyze 300 million tweets that originated in America, from 2006-2009. The only real barrier to tech like this from becoming leaps more subtle and profound is the word-scoring method.
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