February 27, 2012
Top 100
I love a good infographic! After all, knowledge is power and the visualization of data makes absorbing information all the easier. Well-designed infographics have a way of pulling me into a subject I’d normally never care to know about. As a designer I can attest to the crazy amount of time it takes to make a compelling, useful infographic. I have to say I knew about many of the great links, resources and tools I’ve linked to here on this post before but I dug deep and found some new and exciting infographic tools that I’m willing to bet you haven’t seen before. Items 1-5 under the Data Visualization Tools and Software category are sufficiently capable of arming even a novice designer with the ability to produce a powerful infographic (though I’m sure experts will find them handy as well). In short, if you love infographics, data visualization and information design as much as I do, you’re going to love this post. As always, leave me a comment with your thoughts and suggestions!
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Data Sources
- DataMarket – Find and understand data.
- WorldMap – Explore, visualize and publish geographic information.
- Influence Explorer – Provides overviews of political influence data for politicians.
- US Census Bureau – Measures America (people, places, economy).
- Freebase – An entity graph of people, places and things from Google.
- World Bank Data – The world at a glance (key development indicators).
- Data360 – Telling compelling and data-driven stories.
- Number Of – You ask, they count.
- Gallup – Public opinion polls.
- EveryBlock – Uncovers info on large cities contained in government databases.
- Daytum – Helps you collect, organize and communicate your everyday data.
- Google Public Data - Filter and animate data sets from around the world.
- Gapminder - Displays time series of development statistics for all countries.
- Munterbund - Graphical visualization of text similarities in essays.
