Infographics are everywhere these days (VizWorld included), and seem to serve multiple purposes ranging from educating the public to simply directing eyeballs for advertising dollars. So many infographics seem to fall into that latter category that the entire field is beginning to develop a bad reputation for simply overcomplicating trivial data with splash but pointless visuals. Robert Kosara has a new article online that reminds us that good infographics do exist, and provides a few tips on how to keep your own graphics from becoming internet fodder.
Perhaps the most obvious use of infographics is giving readers a sense of scale. This is a very typical use in magazine and newspaper articles, where the purpose of the infographic is to provide some perspective on the numbers mentioned in an article.
via The Fascinating World of Good Infographics | EagerEyes.org.
