Infographics; Assignment 1

What is an infographic?Infographics use pictures, images, and colors along with content to completely illustrate and understand data.

Why use an Infographic? To communicate a message. To present large amounts of information in a compact and easy to understand

way. To reveal the data, discover cause-effect relations, and identify relationships

among data. To monitor changes or trends in data.

An example:

Infographics; Assignment 1

Infographics; Assignment 1

An Interesting ExampleThere was a very cheesy movie called Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. The best clip from the movie is found here:

http://www.youtube.com/v/I16_8l0yS-g&hl=_US&fs=1&

Can this ever be possible? Where is the intersection between science fiction and real science?

To really answer that question, an infographic was created by Stephen Taubman:

Infographics; Assignment 1

Infographics; Assignment 1

Assignment 1: Complete on a word document

Save as: Info1 and Upload to Bonnie Gutierrez

Discussion questions1. What is useful about putting information in this format?2. Why would this be better than just showing the formulas or using just a bar

graph?3. What different pieces of information are included on this poster?4. What information was included in this poster that allows non-science people to

understand the content?5. Write an abstract about what it is about (two or three sentences that highlights

the purpose of the infographic.)

Other examples of InfographicsAnswer the following for each:

1. Look at these examples and identify what you like/don't like about each one.2. How are colors used differently in each one? Are some colors more powerful

than others?3. How are objects displayed on each one? Do sizes of the objects matter in

showing the intended information?4. How could colors, sizes, and kinds of objects be used to mislead people away

from the data?5. Make notes about what you notice and like/don't like about the infographics. you

will be creating some throughout the year and these notes will remind you of what you visually like to see and will serve as a starting point for you.

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Example 1

from: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/07/29/health/29cancer.graph.web.html

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Example 2

from: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/08/02/science/20050802_sci_CELL.html

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Example 3

http://www.good.is/post/infographic-life-on-less-than-2-a-day/

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Example 4

from:http://flowingdata.com/2011/03/22/are-gas-prices-really-that-high/

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Example 5

http://www.vizworld.com/2011/09/numbers-travel-industry/

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Example 6:

http://www.vizworld.com/2010/05/infographic-gulf-mexico-oil-spill/