Revenant (12/20/2013)
peterzeke (12/20/2013)
Steve said in his editorial about Infographics:
"...but I wasn't sure how they'd translate to any of the business world's I'd worked in"
That's the catch. Infographics don't lend themselves all that well to visualizing information necessary for business (or for informing the general public on *important* matters.) . . .
Hmm. I found Tufte's pipeline diagram very useful for displaying subscriptions info: this many existing users, this many trials, this many trials converted to regular subscriptions, this many subscriptions not renewed, etc.
The only problem was that it was one hell to program.
Oh, indeed. My comment wasn't meant to suggest that all infographics fail to convey useful information, certainly some succeed, many don't. I find more "entertainment" value in most infographics rather than being "insightful". It's nice to find an infographic that succeeds to inform and generate emotion. Nonethelss, it's pretty easy to find examples of infographics that violate one of Tufte's design principles called the "data-ink ratio": http://www.infovis-wiki.net/index.php/Data-Ink_Ratio. "Above all else, show the data."
A favorite infographic of mine, if it can be called that, is the humorous map of a "New Yorker's idea of the United States" by Daniel Wallingford.