A Study of Infographics (by me)
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I wrote earlier about the increasingly visual nature of media and news in today’s society. The prior post focused mostly on photography, but there is another visual technique that has risen dramatically in prominence in recent years, particularly online - the infographic. Infographics aim to make complex data sets easy to digest and understand. An entire newspaper has risen to prominence due to the quality of its infographics. There are whole blogs dedicated to the subject. A good infographic can pack a lot of data into a small space and help the viewer to draw out a pattern or conclusion. However if the infographic is poorly or deceptively constructed, that conclusion may not be the same one you’d see if you examined the underlying data. While there are many great and useless infographics out there, I’d like to take a bit of time to focus on a couple deceptive ones.
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