Cool Infographics

17/06/2024

For the Love of Font Sizes:

The minimum font size to use in your graph depends on the graph's final destination and how far it'll be from your readers.

06/06/2024

Ad Fontes Media analyzes both news and “news-like” podcasts for reliability and bias, and 61 are featured on the May Media Bias Chart:

Ad Fontes Media analyzes both news and “news-like” podcasts for reliability and bias, and 61 are featured on the May Media Bias Chart

05/06/2024

How to identify trends and patterns with data visualization

Learn how to visualize trends and patterns effectively with key chart types like line, area, and bump charts. Transform complex data into clear insights.

01/06/2024

10 Must Read Books on AI.

Keeping pace with the rapidly evolving Artificial Intelligence (AI) landscape is a massive challenge, especially when you need to spearhead the search for the right training for your team. To make this task easier, we've compiled a list of questions you and your team should consider as you explore y...

30/05/2024

How to Make Great Presentation decks if you're not a designer.

How to make great presentation decks if you’re not a designer

13/05/2024

The Upshot, the data visualization team at the New York Times, celebrates their 10-year anniversary this week:

The Upshot is 10 years old this week. Here’s a collection of our most distinctive work from the last decade.

11/05/2024

Exploring Tile Grid Maps: From Hooked Beginnings to Unconventional Layouts from Jon Schwabish

Some thoughts on tile grid maps, new things I'm reading, and an exciting new podcast episode!

08/05/2024

Beeswarm Plot is a type of visualization that displays individual data points in a way that they don’t overlap, resulting in a plot that resembles a swarm of bees. From Severino Ribecca

A visualisation that displays individual data points in a way that they don't overlap, resulting in a plot that resembles a swarm of bees.

06/05/2024

This Chart Kills Fascists: Information graphics from the Nuremberg trials

Information graphics from the Nuremberg trials

30/04/2024

How to Make Animated Social Media Graphics – as a Designer

As a graphic designer, you know just how difficult it is to make a splash in the hyper-competitive arena of today’s social media marketing. If you’re responsible for designing for social media, it’s your job to figure out how to make your assets stand out from the crowd, and that’s not easy.

25/04/2024

Graphic Design Principles: Balance and White Space

Learn how to use balance and white space in your designs by distributing your elements to promote visual flow.

19/04/2024

Canva acquires Affinity to fill the Adobe-sized holes in its design suite https://ow.ly/LmNu50RhMni

Affinity integrations with Canva are expected “over time”

17/04/2024

Use Icons to Visualize Data, Not Just Decorate from Ann Emery: https://ow.ly/p4CJ50RhMmU

I've been recommending that we use icons for years now -- but I haven't been clear enough about how to use them, and how not to use them. In this ...

09/04/2024

Use color to focus or to compete for attention. https://ow.ly/ASYm50Rbmb4

Getting your audience’s attention and focusing it well are critical components of building a successful data communication. While there are several ways to capture attention, the two techniques we find most effective—and the ones we talk about the most—are:  employ words more thoughtful

30/03/2024

Learning from our errors in data visualization, Sarah Leo reevaluates some of her designs for The Economist. https://ow.ly/W0L850R4Ljh

Learning from our errors in data visualisation

26/03/2024

I'm a jury member of Make Your Data Speak (MYDS) Award 2024 and I invite you to apply for this event. There are 4 categories to apply: Data Storytelling, Business Dashboards, Visual element creation and an AI-Driven data art. They are now accepting applications, and the submission period will close on April 10, 2024. https://ow.ly/bHe850R1502

Make your Data Speak Data Visualisation Award Prize fund $10,000, submit by April 30

22/03/2024

Great list! Book recommendations for visual science communicators. These are book and article recommendations related to the Storytelling Strategies theme of chapter 11 of Jen Christiansen's book Building Science Graphics. https://ow.ly/W65750QVA2s

Design for Information: An Introduction to the Histories, Theories, and Best Practices behind Effective Information Visualizations, by Isabel Meirelles (Rockport Publishers, 2013)

20/03/2024

This is true for data visualization and infographic designers too! 3 reasons why you should show your work https://ow.ly/2zzF50QVzZT

3 reasons why you should show your work Thursday, March 24, 2016 A few weeks ago I gave my friend Chase Jarvis 3 reasons why all workers — not just “creatives”! — should be showing their work: Documenting your process helps your progress. Keeping track of what you’ve done helps you better ...

18/03/2024

How to Create Presentations that Pop from The Noun Project. They need to add one more step that says "Visualize your data" https://ow.ly/3qTF50QVzW0

Explore these helpful resources on how to create presentations that are beautiful, memorable, and make an impact.

13/03/2024

The Author's Guild has published AI Best Practices for Authors, a comprehensive set of recommended best practices to help authors navigate issues related to AI technologies and their implications for the writing profession. https://ow.ly/pv5g50QLh5r

These best practices cover AI issues authors may encounter in the writing and publishing process. This includes best practices around using AI tools to assist writing, what disclosures are needed to publishers and readers if AI is used, responding to […]

11/03/2024

Great use of an animated GIF to show the data with a common baseline in stacked bar chafrom Nathan Yau at FlowingData! https://ow.ly/fRVg50QLh32

08/03/2024

Data Storytelling continues to increase as an Exploding Topic in the public awareness!
https://ow.ly/onor50QLh2W

Discover the Data storytelling topic on Exploding Topics

06/03/2024

How Much Data Viz is Too Much? https://ow.ly/KnMY50QLg6L

How much is "too much?" I'm sure you've seen that eye glaze from time to time. The answer is actually deceptively simple.

01/03/2024

Seeing things through your audience's perspective might not be as hard as you'd think. Gain insight before publishing with these tricks.

Where are your eyes drawn? That simple question is the basis of an easy test you can perform on any visual communication you create—a graph or slide, for example—to assess whether you’ve designed it effectively. Sketch or create the thing, then close your eyes and look away and look back to it...

28/02/2024

Maintaining a viz style guide is crucial for consistent styling and speeding up the workflow. Here's how to measure style guide efficacy:

Maintaining a viz style guide is crucial for consistent styling and speeding up the work flow. Here's how to measure style guide efficacy.

26/02/2024

Stephanie Evergreen: Ways to Visualize Statistical Significance:

If you've passed the two criteria for communicating statistical significance, here are four ideas for ways to indicate it in your data visualizations.

23/02/2024

Tricolon, A rhetorical device that can spice up your communications!

A rhetorical device that can add sparkle to your communications

22/02/2024

The Quickest Route to Washington DC is a GIS visualization built using the ArcGIS Pro Network Analysis toolset by Arterial Mapping. How many cities can you identify just from the road clusters?

21/02/2024

The DVS State of the Data Viz Industry Survey Challenge is here! This Challenge uses the 2023 State of the Industry Survey data and provides data visualization practitioners an opportunity to use their visualization skills while learning and sharing observations and insights about data visualizers around the globe. Deadline for entries is March 31st.

On February 16 the DVS will launch our Annual State of the Industry Survey Challenge, using data from the 2023 State of the Industry Survey. New this year, we have segmented the data into five separate datasets that roughly align with sections of the State of the Industry Survey Report and make it e...