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"Assuming you're not working for a media corporation with huge graphics and statistics departments at your disposal, you may want to create some infographics for your own articles. With today's flood of information, infographics allow readers to quickly digest and understand complex data. A good infographic will not only inform readers, but will also create interest and convince people to read your article similar to how good headlines and photos attract readers. In contrast, both boring and overly complex graphics will quickly convince readers to ignore your article."

A website where teachers or students can produce infographics.

Great list of resources on infographics from the NY Times

INfographic depicts where different groups of people get their election news.

"Want to understand how high food prices really are? And how they're affecting the world's poor? Take a look at this infographic, which also underlines how hikes in food prices mean the poorest families have to make painful savings in areas such as health and schooling for their children"

Repository of infographics

Diane Laufenberg shares lesson using infographics

great infographic on how to search effectively

data visualization sties.

Wufoo is a web application that helps anybody build amazing online forms. When you design a form with Wufoo, it automatically builds the database, backend and scripts needed to make collecting and understanding your data easy, fast and fun.

new web 2.0 tool that could be useful in the classroom.

Easy way to create interactive images.

Makes images interactive. Could be useful for adding more content to an image.

Inforgraphics about wealth in America

Very intereting post with a visual showing the diffusion of tweets during the Japan earthquake.

very interesting graphic and video of the power of twitter as a global information tool.

"Smarter Research With All Statistics In Your Hands" Great site with loads of data! Topics include: crime stats, demographics, environment, poverty, transportation and more!