Infographics are the new hot thing these days and you see them everywhere. I personally believe they are valuable tools in providing context and storytelling. If you have data and looking to roll your own, below are some emerging applications that make it easier to bring your story (and the data) to life. Also as inspiration, included are a couple of links to sites that aggregate infographics.
Information is Beautiful - from David McCandless
Infographics from Good.Is Magazine
Infographics from Mashable.com
Cool Infographics
Daily Infographic - organized by topic
For those who want to geek out...
DataVisualization.ch
Flowing Data
Easel.ly is my personal favorite lately. More functional than most of the rest and more customizable.
Visual.ly is interesting as well but it's really about tapping existing data sets to tell a story. Not as customizable.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Google Knowledge Graph
Google recently introduced the Knowledge Graph. No it's not a social product aimed at competing with Facebook. Knowledge Graph is very interesting evolution of search from a user perspective. It aims to provide more human thinking to it's algorithms.
How it impacts advertising/marketing is still to be determined. Really underscores the POE framework and thinking about search from all angles.
Down the right hand side you can see how these results are instantly more relevant.
For more on the evolving nature of search check out the latest on Bing from GroupMNext
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