creating infographics
DESCRIPTION
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? Diana Silveira will tackle this question and 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.TRANSCRIPT
CREATING INFOGRAPHICS FOR MORE POWERFUL
HANDOUTS & PRESENTATIONS
LUNCH & LEARN
BY DIANA SILVEIRANOVARE LIBRARY SERVICES
Trends in Dieting
• 4 of 10 people quit diets in 7 weeks
4 OF 10 PEOPLE WILL
QUIT A DIET IN THE FIRST 7
WEEKS
Week 1 Week 2 Week 30
20
40
60
80
100
120
Percentage of People on a Diet
Source: http://www.nexercise.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/new-years-fail.html
- What is an infographics?- Where can you find existing infographics?- How can you create your own infographics?
Agenda
http://bit.ly/w3fTtK
What Are INFOGRAPHICS?
http://huff.to/xuEg5s
Why an Infographic?
Explain Current State
of Affairs
Compare A to B
Evolution of a trend or idea
Simplify the complex
http://bit.ly/yCah7pand http://slidesha.re/xy1vUJ
Why?
• Easily shareable – will increase your “views” and “shares”
• Easy to understand• Make an impact
http://visual.ly/improve-your-credit
WHERE TO FIND POWERFUL INFOGRAPHICS?
Visual.ly
http://visual.ly/ and http://bit.ly/zSyhXi
http://www.coolinfographics.com/http://bit.ly/yG4IL8
http://www.smallmeans.com/new-york-times-infographics/ andhttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/30/weekinreview/30marsh.html
http://bit.ly/yStnZ8http://flowingdata.com/category/visualization/
http://www.visualizing.org/ http://invent.ge/wcV0Yc
A community of creative people making sense of complex issues through data and design
http://visualoop.tumblr.com/http://bit.ly/AuVfXP
http://bit.ly/w2eKR7
http://pinterest.com/search/?q=infographics
MAKING YOUR OWN INFOGRAPHICS
3 KEYS TO SUCCESS
VISUALCONTENT
KNOWLEDGE
http://bit.ly/xJhAhE
Tips for Good Infographics
• Keep it simple! • Have a point & make it clear• Decide on a color scheme• Research • Cite within infographic• Think of it as a visual essay• Purpose: Convey meaning behind complex data• Include your URL
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/awesome-free-tools-infographics/
Strengths:• Upload own data or use
existing• Variety of Visualization
Options• Publish Interactive
visualizations to your own site
Many Eyes (IBM Research)
http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/
• Quick and Easy• Small Sets of Data• iPhone App – visualization
on the go
Daytum
• $4.99@month/2.99 for students/ Free Trial Available
http://www.wolframalpha.com/pro/
• Create interactive maps without Google
• 3D maps• Add symbols, figures,
characters
http://kartograph.org/
Wordle
Wordle.net
Tools to Create - DIY
• Carefully select Fonts and Colors• http://openclipart.org/• Photos– Creative Commons, Dreamstime for free
photos
• Photoedit software– Photoshop, GIMP, etc.– PowerPoint or other Presentation
Software
BENEFITS OF VIDEOGAMES
Sources: http://abcn.ws/w9eYkL And http://openclipart.org/
Families that play video games together have fun together
Video Games can improve early literacy skills
Leads to better teamwork including: delegation, steering to common goal % more Better Hand/Eye
Coordination for kids and adults
QUESTIONS?
http://visual.ly/node/16005
From Attendee!
DIANA [email protected]
slideshare.net/dee987delicious.com/dee987/infographics
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