Infographic of Effective Infographics

A great recursive infographic on infographics comes from David McCandless of Information is Beautiful.

To me, these seem like the key components of a good infographic / data visualisation / piece of information design.

• Information needs to be interesting (meaningful & relevant) and have integrity (accuracy, consistency).
• Design needs to have form (beauty & structure) and function (it has to work and be easy to use).

You may disagree. I welcome your input. I may not have got it right.

via Interesting, Easy, Beautiful, True? | Information Is Beautiful.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .