25+ Useful Infographics for Web Designers Infographics can be a great way to quickly reference information. Instead of pouring over figures and long reports to decipher data, an infographic can immediately make apparent exactly what a dataset actually means. Below are more than 25 infographics that can be useful to web designers. Some are incredibly practical, some provide information that might be of interest to designers and some just present data that might be interesting to those who design websites all day. If you know of any good ones that we may have missed, please add them in the comments section below. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. Chris Harrison - Word Spectrum Using Google's enormous bigram dataset, I produced a series of visualizations that explore word associations. Each visualization pits two primary terms against each other. Then, the use frequency of words that follow these two terms are analyzed. For example, "war memorial" occurs 531,205 times, while "peace memorial" occurs only 25,699. A position for each word is generated by looking at the ratio of the two frequencies. To better achieve a even distribution, I normalized the frequencies of bigrams based on total primary term frequency. A new visualization looking at the same dataset has been posted. Jeff Clark has created interactive versions for Twitter and news. Warning: the visualizations use actual word frequencies from the web - foul language is present! Each thumbnail links to a PDF version.
Typography Meets Infographics on Datavisualization Fontshop is celebrating its 20th birthday and they invite us to celebrate with them. On this occasion they’ve created a delicate infographic documenting amusing and enlightening statistics. If you like what you see there’s more for you to celebrate: the infographic is growing over the coming weeks. 10 Amazing Visualizations of Social Networks | Social Media Trad Social networks are dynamic and constantly evolving. While we can easily identify our friends and acquaintances within a network, it’s much harder for us to comprehend how members in a social network are connected and how those connections influence a particular network. Fortunately, there are now a number of people that have taken the time to create stunning visualizations of various social networks that give us a better understanding of how networks function. Fidg’t’ : Visualize The Fidg’t Visualizer allows you to play around with your network. ICCARUS: scouta.com Click here to watch the video. A 3D visualization of real-time data from scouta.com. looks del.icio.us The looks del.icio.us project is my first attempt to combine graphics design with programming. Myspace attitudes Two big (200cm x 90cm, 80 x 36 inch) posters show the variety and attitudes of members from an internet community like MySpace. IRC arcs Biblical Social Network
45 Creative Resumes to Seize Attention Editor’s note: For a newer, updated version of this post, check it out here. Are you one of those job seekers who have been sending far too many resumes and been hit with far too many disappointment? The problem may not lie with your qualification or skills set. Employer filters tons of resumes on daily basis, only the outstanding ones get noticed. A creative resume is fairly important. Today we want to bring to your attention a collective of 45 creative and beautiful resumes that will definitely impress an employer. Curriculum Vitae by Jonny-RocketA CV that probably laid the author the job and great at attracting attention among several hundred applicants. Resume by Pau Morgan Me, Myself Curriculum Vitae by Novisurjadi Life Chart ResumeAuthor’s first take at visualizing general tasks he does daily between age 0-32. Resume by Arianedenise Resume on FabricJust a creative way to get a graphic design job, while expressing author’s parallel interest in fabric and sewing. Resume by Adam Stephenson
Data Visualizations: 5 Beautiful Social Media Videos Data visualizations are a wonderful way to display the interactions between large groups of people within a network. Virtual places like Twitter, Facebook, or Flickr can be easier understood when you see a visual representation of their inner workings. We've chosen five fresh videos that visualize various social media ecosystems. 1. If all Twitter searches were this fun, I'd probably do little else than stare at them all day. 2. This project displays a visualization of digital photos publically shared on the web by people visiting Spain. 3. Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a service that harnesses the power of an on-demand human workforce. 4. One of the sponsoring companies of the Edinburgh Twestival, which happened on February 12th, used Twitter to track the networking and socializing at the event. 5. This fascinating visualization video uses data from music social network Last.fm to display the popularity of music genres in certain parts of Europe. The video is available here.
Infographic of the Day: How Color Affects Purchases | Designerscouch #thecritiquenetwork 3 Ways To Read The News A Little Differently | MakeUseOf.com As the world continues its rapid movement to the Web, things are changing in the field of journalism. Where once newspapers dominated, the world of blogs and online publications are quickly springing up to take its place. One of the cool things about the Web is that there’s nothing holding developers to a particular layout, interface or format. Anything, with a bit of clever design-work, can be achieved. Whether it’s a game, a puzzle, or an image search, here are three new paradigms for news-reading: Spectra Visual Newsletter Spectra is presenting a whole new way of reading the news. You can even interact with Spectra using your webcam or microphone for an even more immersive experience. Newsmap The Newsmap is essentially a mashup of newspapers with social media. You can sort the results by category (Business, Entertainment, Nation, etc.), or by country around the world. NewsBreaker This is both a fun game and a fun way to read the news – the headlines, at any rate. Photo: inju
Of All The People In All The World Of All The People In All The World, a traveling art exhibit in the UK, uses grains of rice to bring the large numbers behind world populations to the grasp of the average human being. In the exhibit, one grain of rice equals one person and those grains of rice are put together to represent all kind of statistics from the small (such as the number of people who have walked on the moon) to the large (the population of the United States as seen below). Link