Carpeta Pedagógica: Plataforma educativa de recursos digitales 10 Tools for Creating Infographics and Visualizations The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. Hello there! I'm Miranda Rensch, Product Manager at SEOmoz and lover of visual communication. I've compiled a list of tools you can use to create visualizations, or simply use to communicate visually with your teammates. Tools for creating simple infographics and data visualizations 1. Piktochart is a web-based tool that has six decent free themes (and a whole bunch more for the paid version) for creating simple visualizations. 2. Easel.ly is another free web-based tool for creating infographics. 3. Infogr.am is another free, web-based tool with some really nice themes and a great interface for creating simple infographics. 4. Visual.ly (I know, these visualization tools love their '.ly's!) 5. Tableau has some free tools for creating data visualizations. [Bonus!] Tools for diagraming and wireframing 6. 7. Other tools for visual communication 8. 9. 10. 1.
HTML Lists Designing Effective Content-Heavy Websites - Constructive It’s official—our attention span is now shorter than that of a goldfish. As far back as 1971…wait, what was I about to say? Anyway, though the goldfish statistic does oversimplify things, there’s no denying that sustaining online engagement has gotten more difficult in the last 5-7 years. For some, this change has been a very good thing (I’m looking at you, Buzzfeed). But it’s not all doom and gloom if you’re into thoughtful discourse! When it comes to creating more engaging, effective websites for the content-heavy crowd, we just need designed solutions that, in the words of Herbert Simon, turn this not-so-great situation into one that’s preferred. A Closer Look at Audience Engagement During research for a website redesign, it’s common to dig into a site’s Google Analytics to get a better look at how it’s performing—specifically, its engagement metrics, one of the strongest indicators of website health. Designing Better Experiences 3 Key Principles for Designing Content-Heavy Websites 1.
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7 Free Online Tools To Create Digital Publications (Flipbooks, Portfolios, Albums, etc.) « TechBoyZzz | Blog Sanskar | san@techboyzzz.com So, starting off while I was just surfing the web and reading some articles, I came to Amit Aggarwal’s article which was about – ‘Creating flipbook style magazines’. It focussed on only one way of that. Please note that I won’t include tools like Scribd and Docstoc for the very reason of both not offering any tools for content creation. If you don’t want to read the whole lengthy blog about the apps you can just go on to the bottom of each section and read the Key Points (in bullets) and the conclusion. Issuu is one of the first that I am going to talk about. Issuu Viewer When signing up, the user is given access to the free Issuu account. Key Features: Upload new items to the Issuu libraryEmbed an item from Issuu on your website or blogShare items through social networksChoose between a free or paid membershipSearch the site or explore the categories to find items ConclusionIssuu is a helpful resource for anyone who enjoys reading publications. Lulu Homepage
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
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