Session attended: Interactive Infographics
Twitter hashtag: #interinfo
Interactive infographics, which are graphical depictions of data, allow you to process what would have taken hours to understand into seconds. In this session, four panelists showed examples of infographics and then talked about the current state of technologies related to creating them.
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SAMPLE INFOGRAPHICS:
Good, which produces a website, magazine, videos and events and is “for people who give a damn”, is a rich resource for excellent infographics. Casey Caplowe, Good’s founder and creative director, showed several examples of infographics, many of which are static graphics and not interactive, and are frequently about educating people to make change for good.
Ben Fry’s example of Darwin’s Origin of Species shows all of the revisions that were made to the original document in an animated and interactive format.
Shan Carter, from the New York Times, produces highly interactive infographics that utilize user-controls to show the data based on different variables.
Eric Rodenbeck from Stamen showed an example of visualizing real time Twitter activity related to the Olympics using photos as graphic elements that scale in size based on the frequency of the words associated with the photos.
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