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Here's a collection of terrific social media infographics that might come in handy. As you probably know, infographics are visual representations of information, data, or knowledge. They illustrate information that would be unwieldy in text form and they act as a kind of visual shorthand, making information easy to understand and consume. They are driven by the same information as charts, but they're often a better form of communication because of their pleasant aesthetics - charts and graphs can communicate data, but infographics turn data into information.

Inforgraphics, "extensively [used] as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians" , have exploded onto the internet in the last few years. What's so great about these aesthetic pieces of 'data reinforced gems', is their ability to paint a larger picture of what it is the creator is trying to express.

TrendsSpotting Market Research has completed the release of the "2010 Influencers Series: Trend predictions in 140 characters". We have followed major trends in six of the most promising categories to dominate the web this year: Social media | Consumer Trends | Tech and IT | Online Marketing | Video | Mobile.

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"Information visualization is not only about creating graphical displays of complex and latent information structures; it contributes to a broader range of cognitive, social, and collaborative activities. This is the first book to examine information visualization from this perspective."

"Using a list of countries generated by The World Factbook database, national flags of countries fetched from Wikipedia (as of 26th May 2007) are analysed by a custom made Python script to calculate the proportions of colours for each of them. That information is then translated into a piechart using another Python script. The proportions of colours on all unique flags are used to finally generate a piechart of proportions of colours for all the flags combined. Colours making up less than 1% may not appear."

"I'm not sure why advertisers are promoting their Facebook and Twitter pages instead of their websites. It would be much wiser to invest in a blog as a landing page instead of using a platform, that you can't trust, and that doesn't yield monetary results."