Presentation given by Trina Chiasson, Co-founder and CEO of Infoactive, at the Do Good Data conference. May 2014, Chicago. For questions and follow up, tweet: https://twitter.com/trinachi
Text of Information Graphics for Everyone
Information Graphics for Everyone Trina Chiasson, @trinachi
I did nonprofit stuff
We had lots of data
What is an infographic?
A graphic that presents data
Static Interactive Exploratory Levels of interactivity & engagement
Data visualizations are hard to do
Can software help?
The perfect software doesnt exist
Adventures in building datavis software: infoactive.co
You probably dont need to invent a new visualization type
Graphical perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Models