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The 14 Best Data Visualization Tools. Nishith Sharma is the co-founder of frrole, a social intelligence startup. Raw data is boring and it’s difficult to make sense of it in its natural form. Add visualization to it and you get something that everybody can easily digest. Not only you can make sense of it faster, but you can also observe interesting patterns that wouldn’t be apparent from looking only at stats. All Killer, No Filler This one’s different, trust us. To make the tedious task of making beautiful charts and maps easier, I’ve made the list of best data visualization tools available for the job.

Let’s get started! For Developers D3.js D3.js, short for ‘Data Driven Documents’, is the first name that comes to mind when we think of a Data Visualization Software. It doesn’t ship with pre-built charts out of the box, but has a nice gallery which showcases what’s possible with D3. FusionCharts FusionCharts has probably the most exhaustive collection of charts and maps. Chart.js Google Charts Highcharts Leaflet dygraphs Datawrapper. Ruota colore | Combinazioni colori.

Design seeds | for all who ♥ color. PICOL - Pictorial Communication Language - Icons & Pictorgrams. 7 Tips to Beautiful PowerPoint by @itseugenec. 3 Legendary Design Decks Every Presenter Should Read. Business presentations have come a long way: Gone are the days of bullet points and stock photos. If you want to succeed as a presenter today, you must get visual.

You never saw Steve Jobs presenting any of those PowerPoint templates, now did you? Whether you're new to design or a pro, we can all be inspired and improve upon our presentations. Design firm Empowered Presentations shared with us what they consider to be the 3 best decks on presentation design. Advice from Seth Godin: Avoiding “Really Bad PowerPoint” This deck combats the notion that presentations are inherently a negative experience. “The deck caught our attention right away with the opening slide with Seth Godin’s face and of course the catchy title,” says Empowered Presentations’ co-founder Yancey Unequivocally.

Recreating the NSA Slides When the NSA slides leaked, designer Emiland De Cubber took a creative stab and redesigned the top-secret slides. Design Mistakes to Avoid Photo: Getty Images/Stephen Simpson. FREE Multimedia Version of Resonate. I’m so excited to release a free multimedia version of my book Resonate. As the first author to release a business book on interactive platforms, I’m hoping to change the way readers experience content. I understand the media conundrum authors are facing: visual books are extremely popular, but publishers haven’t figured out how to turn them into compelling digital experiences. I found that there wasn’t one single distribution platform that works on desktop and devices that’s easy to build in or to use. We’re in an era when publishers need to become their own agencies, and agencies need to be publishers.

I believe so deeply in presenting content in a way that’s customized to the reader that I decided to offer this version of Resonate free of charge. The multimedia version includes immersive video, beautiful graphics, audio, quizzes and interactive widgets that let you interact with the analysis of famous speeches. Click here to explore the book! Why I Did It. Delicious - a free font from exljbris Font Foundry. Delicious The Delicious is a font I designed because of my admiration for typography.

It got a bit out of hand and in two years it resulted in a complete font family. Free download Mac (Type1) Download. Please do not refer to this download link, only to this page. PC (OpenType) Download. By downloading this font, you agree to the font license agreement for free fonts. Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses. | Font Squirrel. 10 free tools for creating infographics | Infographic. Done right, infographics can be a great way to make sense of complex data.

The best infographics transform complex information and data into graphics that are both easy to grasp and visually appealing. The only problem is, infographics that look like they were simple to make are often anything but. Exclusive offer: Save 15% on Adobe Creative Cloud now Here, we've selected our top free tools and apps for making infographics. Some of the options here are even suitable for non-designers, as templates and other features make them easy to use. Give these free tools a try and let us know which ones you get on best with on Facebook or Twitter. And once you've selected the infographics tool you want, head over to our Cyber Monday deals page to grab yourself a bargain on some design kit. 01.

Visme promises to help you 'speak visually'. 02. Canva is a powerful and easy-to-use online tool that's suitable for all manner of design tasks, from brochures to presentations and much more besides. 03. 04. 10 free tools for creating infographics | Infographic | Page 2. 06. Visual.ly Visual.ly is a community platform for data visualization and infographics set up in 2011. It allows you both to create infographics and get them shared on social media. The website is also able to match those commissioning infographics - including brands, companies and agencies - with its community over more than 35,000 designers. 07. This one's a bit niche, but if you take a lot of photos with your Android phone it's worth checking out. 08. Venngage is a great tool for creating and publishing infographics because it's so simple and easy to use. 09. Dipity is a great way to create, share, embed, and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location, and time stamps. 10.

This free Windows app lets you monitor your social media activity and generate infographics that help you visualize how you connect and share with your network. Words: Sarah James and the Creative Bloq staff Liked this? Login | Piktochart. Easel.ly | create and share visual ideas online.