Infographic Design

happens always :P 

First off, I wanna thank my Data Visualization class professors for introducing me to the beautiful world of DataViz. such a wonderful area to explore and learn things in Data world. One of the class assignments was to create an infographic design of data.. so....wait... did I hear  you ask the question "what the heck is an infographic?"

Infographic???????????

well, in 'C' strcat('info','graphic') function call will return a string array 'infographic'. yes, it does. So, Infographic is one which tells information  graphically. It is really a fun and quick way to learn about a topic without a ton of reading. please refer Understanding Page Rank, How to be a SuperHero  and Geek vs Nerd link for some cool examples.

An infographic is,

• a data-rich visualization of a story or thesis
• a cool tool to educate and reform

With all the info about infographics, now the big question! Where to get the data and with what data should I create an infographic with???

Finally I ended up with this awesome website http://vizualize.me/. You can create really cool infographic designs with their many pre designed templates or you can create your own design and save it as a template. I chose to  design my resume to be an infographic with their already existing resume template. 

my completed infographic resume can be found at http://vizualize.me/Bji221?r=Bji221#.VQM3J-lGh5Q. Its bad that they did not come up with a solution to print or save they  infographic created by free users. Thats OK!  They need money for running business or for running servers at least :P but they can give a link of an icon that, when embedded in a web page will take you to your infographic page. Here is the icon that links to the infographic resume I created.
  

Advantages of creating an infographic resume,

1. It shows that you know multimedia
2. It shows you are more that a writer
3. It illustrates your creativity

For further reading, http://www.nerdgraph.com/ and http://blog.visual.ly/making-it-funny-8-hilarious-infographics/ will give an excellent details and cool ideas for creating one.

please share your comments.

Please visit the following links if you need more info,
 1. http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design-tips/information-graphics-1232836
2. http://lish-55.deviantart.com/art/Typographic-Elephant-182646999
3. http://www.bitrebels.com/design/the-evolution-of-graphic-design-infographic/
4. http://www.space.com/12858-star-trek-timeline-science-fiction-infographic.html
5. http://media.creativebloq.futurecdn.net/sites/creativebloq.com/files/images/2013/10/megabeer.jpg
6. http://media.creativebloq.futurecdn.net/sites/creativebloq.com/files/images/2013/10/productive.jpg