Posts tagged infographics

Do You Need a Social Media Detox? Sometimes I say yes, absolutely yes. And then four hours later I still find myself staring at screens. — Michael Image: Detail from Do You Need a Social Media Detox by Column Five Media.

Do You Need a Social Media Detox?

Sometimes I say yes, absolutely yes. And then four hours later I still find myself staring at screens. — Michael

Image: Detail from Do You Need a Social Media Detox by Column Five Media.

Visualizing Everything Facebook Knows about You A couple of months ago, 24-year-old Austrian law student Max Schrems requested Facebook for all his personal data. The European arm of Facebook, based in Dublin, Ireland, was obliged to turn over this information, as they had to follow an European law that requires any entity to provide full access to data about an individual, should this individual personally request for it. Accordingly, Max received a CD containing about 1,222 pages (PDF files), including chats he had deleted more than a year ago, “pokes” dating back to 2008, invitations, and hundreds of other details. Via sunfoundation.

Visualizing Everything Facebook Knows about You

A couple of months ago, 24-year-old Austrian law student Max Schrems requested Facebook for all his personal data. The European arm of Facebook, based in Dublin, Ireland, was obliged to turn over this information, as they had to follow an European law that requires any entity to provide full access to data about an individual, should this individual personally request for it. Accordingly, Max received a CD containing about 1,222 pages (PDF files), including chats he had deleted more than a year ago, “pokes” dating back to 2008, invitations, and hundreds of other details.

Via sunfoundation.

700 Billion Videos Watched and Counting

Video Infographs produced this 2:45 video on what happened in 2011 in the world of Web-based and mobile social media.

The numbers, of course, are staggering. The question, of course, remains the same: What does it all mean?

Death and Taxes, 2012 Via Jess Bachman Hi. I’m Jess Bachman. Every year I spend two months researching and creating this visual record of our tax dollars at work… …”Death and Taxes” is more than just numbers. It is a uniquely revealing look at our national priorities, that fluctuate yearly, according to the wishes of the President, the power of Congress, and the will of the people. Thousands of pages of raw data have been boiled down to one poster that provides the most open and accessible record of our nations’ spending you will ever find. If you pay taxes, then you have paid for a small part of everything in the poster. “Death and Taxes” is an essential poster for any responsible citizen or information junkie. Death and Taxes is available as a poster. When printed, it’s six square feet. Image: A very small detail from Jess Bachman’s Death and Taxes 2012. H/T: ChartPorn.

Death and Taxes, 2012

Via Jess Bachman

Hi. I’m Jess Bachman. Every year I spend two months researching and creating this visual record of our tax dollars at work…

…”Death and Taxes” is more than just numbers. It is a uniquely revealing look at our national priorities, that fluctuate yearly, according to the wishes of the President, the power of Congress, and the will of the people. Thousands of pages of raw data have been boiled down to one poster that provides the most open and accessible record of our nations’ spending you will ever find. If you pay taxes, then you have paid for a small part of everything in the poster. “Death and Taxes” is an essential poster for any responsible citizen or information junkie.

Death and Taxes is available as a poster. When printed, it’s six square feet.

Image: A very small detail from Jess Bachman’s Death and Taxes 2012.

H/T: ChartPorn.

A History of Spices Image: Detail from Turn Up The Heat: Worldwide History of Spice via Recipe-Finder.com. H/T: Cool Infographics

A History of Spices

Image: Detail from Turn Up The Heat: Worldwide History of Spice via Recipe-Finder.com.

H/T: Cool Infographics

Read About Infographics Then Have A Nap I love info graphics of the week from NowSourcing! All the pics this time have very inspirational color palettes.  I especially love the one about the history of beer.  I love history-related infographics! If you have some favorite ones, leave us a comment and we’ll check it out! 

Read About Infographics Then Have A Nap

I love info graphics of the week from NowSourcing! All the pics this time have very inspirational color palettes.  I especially love the one about the history of beer.  I love history-related infographics! If you have some favorite ones, leave us a comment and we’ll check it out! 

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United Bases of America National Post has a fascinating graphic of the 700+ US military bases around the world. Click through to explore.

United Bases of America

National Post has a fascinating graphic of the 700+ US military bases around the world.

Click through to explore.

With halloween just around the corner, we’d be remiss in our civic duty if we didn’t pass along this essential: A Guide To Zombie Survival.

With halloween just around the corner, we’d be remiss in our civic duty if we didn’t pass along this essential: A Guide To Zombie Survival.

Disruptive Companies Infographic Disruptive companies create innovations that invade the market, force change, and create new sectors of the industry. Here we examine a list of disruptive companies, and the industry effects of their innovation. iPad, Google Apps, Skype, Zynga, Tata Nano, Netflix, Pandora via Focus

Disruptive Companies Infographic

Disruptive companies create innovations that invade the market, force change, and create new sectors of the industry. Here we examine a list of disruptive companies, and the industry effects of their innovation.

iPad, Google Apps, Skype, Zynga, Tata Nano, Netflix, Pandora

via Focus

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Great article: “Dont’s of Infographic Design”

Great article: “Dont’s of Infographic Design”

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A snazzy explainer video produced by Column 5 Media about the purpose and value of infographics, where data meets design. Spotting trends in data is much easier with the use of color, size and orientation. In this way the human eye is capable of processing very complex stories told visually within 250 milliseconds. That is, if infographics are done well. 

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Design in Action

Jess Bachman is known for creating fantastic infographics, one of which is a 2009 visualization of the US/China trade relationship that he did for Mint.com. 

Take a moment and look at that work because the video above is Jess in action putting that visualization together.

More precisely, Jess took a screenshot every 10 seconds with SnagIt and then laid it out as a screencast. He calls the 3,657 frame result Flowcapping.

The end result:

H/T: Cool Infographics. 

How to Create Credible Infographics

via MachoArts

Shan Carter and Amanda Cox of the New York Times explore the total financial cost of Al Qaeda’s 9/11 attack ten years ago. In today’s dollar, their final tally is $3.3 trillion in and by the United States alone: Al Qaeda spent roughly half a million dollars to destroy the World Trade Center and cripple the Pentagon. What has been the cost to the United States? In a survey of estimates by The New York Times, the answer is $3.3 trillion, or about $7 million for every dollar Al Qaeda spent planning and executing the attacks. While not all of the costs have been borne by the government — and some are still to come — this total equals one-fifth of the current national debt. The interactive from which the above screenshot is taken explores war (and future war) funding, homeland security, economic consequences, veterans care and actual physical damage from the attacks.

Shan Carter and Amanda Cox of the New York Times explore the total financial cost of Al Qaeda’s 9/11 attack ten years ago. In today’s dollar, their final tally is $3.3 trillion in and by the United States alone:

Al Qaeda spent roughly half a million dollars to destroy the World Trade Center and cripple the Pentagon. What has been the cost to the United States? In a survey of estimates by The New York Times, the answer is $3.3 trillion, or about $7 million for every dollar Al Qaeda spent planning and executing the attacks. While not all of the costs have been borne by the government — and some are still to come — this total equals one-fifth of the current national debt.

The interactive from which the above screenshot is taken explores war (and future war) funding, homeland security, economic consequences, veterans care and actual physical damage from the attacks.