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Thursday, July 14, 2011 

I’ve been a long time supporter of the concept of infographics.  The concept of being able to craft a graphic (static or animated) that conveys a story is a powerful tool.  Recently, I’ve seen the combination of story-telling combined with data visualisation, and the effect is mind-blowing.

The ABC has a fantastic series called ‘Hungry Beast’.  A particular segment called ‘The Beast File’ features animated infographics to illustrate little known or complex facts.  Patrick Clair (a motion designer from Sydney, Australia) seems to specialise in creating some of my favourite inforgraphics.  Check out his blog for some sensation examples of his work at http://patrickclair.blogspot.com/

Some tools that help create infographics are:

• http://www.wordle.net/
  • Online tool to generate ‘word clouds’
• http://www.tagxedo.com/
  • Online toll that builds word art
• http://www.gliffy.com/
  • On line chart maker
• http://inkscape.org/
  • A vector based graphics editor
• http://www.google.com/publicdata/home
  • Google’s public data area for analysing some large, public datasets
• http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/
• IBM data visualisation centre
• http://www.densitydesign.org/research/fineo/
• Create “Sankey” Diagrams from your own data sets

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