Tuesday, September 30

What is an infographic? If you don't know, go look it up. Read about it and then in your own words tell me what an infographic is. What do infographics do? How do they work? What makes a really good infographic?

An infographic is a picture meant to represent data or statistics. In my own words, its an image or some kind of graph that helps the viewer comprehend the information, or put it into perspective. To make an infographic, you gather data, and pile it up and compare it to the other data you have found on the same subject, then a graph can be made to compare it all. A very good infographic would be labeled, easy to read and understand, while still containing a bunch of information. It would have different colors to separate the different statistics, and have an overall proffesional look to it, while having some creativity.

Image from: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/08/infographic-of-the-day-who-came-to-the-us-in-2008.html