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Yin Wah Kreher

10 free tools for creating infographics | Infographic | Creative Bloq - 0 views

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    "quick and dirty infographics tool"
Joyce Kincannon

Infographic | Developing 21st Century Critical Thinkers - MentoringMinds.com - 1 views

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    "As we venture into the 21st century, we as a society, are faced with more innovation and challenge than ever before. We now live in an interconnected world, where the Internet and global communications are simultaneously uniting and isolating us as a society. How do we raise critical thinkers to best face the challenges that face our modern society? What changes in education methods should be implemented to  create a better learning environment for these budding minds? "
Yin Wah Kreher

Take A Look Inside The Infographic Mega-Tome, "Knowledge Is Beautiful" | The Creators P... - 0 views

  • “I start with the idea, and usually a question. Something that typically stupefies me, bewilders me, or frustrates me,” McCandless tells The Creators Project in an interview. “And then the question becomes a concept, and the concept becomes a graphic.”
  • A great and effective data visualization begins with an accurate and well-structured data set, a compelling story and an intention or a goal for getting the information across, explains McCandless. The visual structure comes into play only at the end of the research stage, following the pages and pages of spreadsheets a reader never gets to see. “This work is about 80% research and 20% design,” he explains.
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  • “A lot of people just visualize complex data,” says McCandless. “They’ll take the data without wrapping it in a story, filtering it in any way, humanizing it, or focusing on what’s interesting. Without doing that, you just translate the complexity into visual form.” A complex visualization is counterintuitive, he adds, because its purpose is to clarify and distill data. The strength of an idea is what carries it through each precise stage of the creation process, from data gathering through structuring and designing.
  • With visual language, McCandless can cut through the noise in information overload, uncover the insights locked within data, and decode the self-referential language that pervades knowledge.
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    dataviz project for ECAR stats
Tom Woodward

Tangle: a JavaScript library for reactive documents - 3 views

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    This is awesome. I love this.
Enoch Hale

Information Is Beautiful - 2 views

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    "ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized!"
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