100 Infographic Tools and Resources
by Eric Enno Tamm. Average Reading Time: about 3 minutes.
The following list of links comes from a blog post by Chris McConnell, the Founder and Editor of DailyTekk. This is the most comprehensive list of infographic and data visualization resources that I have found online. McConnell has also categorized the 100 resources under five headings and provided a short description of the resource.
The Best Blogs and Websites About Infographics
- Visual.ly
- Awesome community for creating and sharing infographics. - Information Aesthetics
– The relationship between design and information. - Visualizing.org
- Making sense of complex issues through data and design. - Visual Complexity
- A resource for the visualization of complex networks. - Daily Infographic
- A new infographic every day. - GOOD Infographics
- GOOD Magazine’s excellent infographics section. - Information Is Beautiful
– Ideas, issues, knowledge, data – visualized. - Infographic of the Day
– Fast Company’s excellent and long running series. - FlowingData
- Exploring how designers, scientists visualize data. - Infographics Archive
– A visual library offering infographics. - Visual Loop
- There’s an infographic for it… even if it didn’t happen! - Infographr
– All about infographics. - Newsilike
– An infographics blog from India. - Video Infographics
– Motion infographics that explain, educate or inform. - Datavisualization.ch
– A news and knowledge resource for data visualization. - VisualJournalism
– 80% of the news in infographics. - Eagereyes
– Reflections on the visual communication of data. - Amazing Infographics
- Cool information graphics. - Submit Infographics
- Share and rate infographics. - The Infographics Showcase
– Collecting infographics. - I Love Charts
– A Tumblr blog about charts. - Well Formed Data
– An infographics blog by a freelance data visualizer. - Best Infographics
– Pointing you toward great infographics. - Infographic List
– For those who love infographics.
Data Visualization Tools and Software
- Piktochart
– Transforms your information into memorable presentations. - Infogr.am
- Create interactive charts and infographics. - Gephi
– Like Photoshop for data. Graph visualization and manipulation software. - Tableau Public
- Free data visualization software. - Free Vector Infographic Kit
– Vector infographic elements from MediaLoot. - Weave
– Web-based analysis and visualization environment. - ChartsBin
– A web-based data visualization tool. - GeoCommons
– See your data on a map. - VIDI
– A suite of powerful Drupal visualization modules. - Prefuse
– Information visualization software. - StatSilk
– Desktop and online software for mapping and visualization. - Gliffy
– Online diagram and flowchart software. - Hohli
– Online charts builder. - Many Eyes
– Lets you upload data and create visualizations. - Google Chart Wizard
– Generate image charts.
Data Sources
- DataMarket
– Find and understand data. - WorldMap
– Explore, visualize and publish geographic information. - Influence Explorer
– Provides overviews of political influence data for politicians. - US Census Bureau
– Measures America (people, places, economy). - Freebase
– An entity graph of people, places and things from Google. - World Bank Data
– The world at a glance (key development indicators). - Data360
– Telling compelling and data-driven stories. - Number Of
– You ask, they count. - Gallup
– Public opinion polls. - EveryBlock
– Uncovers info on large cities contained in government databases. - Daytum
– Helps you collect, organize and communicate your everyday data. - Google Public Data
- Filter and animate data sets from around the world. - Gapminder
- Displays time series of development statistics for all countries. - Munterbund
- Graphical visualization of text similarities in essays.
Infographic Articles and Tutorials
- How to Create Outstanding Modern Infographics
– Vectortuts+ - Infographic: Do-It-Yourself Guide to Infographics
– Marketing Tech Blog - A Few Rules for Making Homemade Infographics
– The Atlantic Wire - The Do’s and Don’ts of Infographic Design
– Smashing Magazine - How to Create a Great Infographics (Slideshow)
– The Content Lab - Design a Magazine Infographic
– Digital Arts - Create an Infographic Typography Animation
– aetuts+ - How to Create Great Infographics
– .net magazine - The Anatomy of an Infographic
– SpyreStudios - How to Strike a Balance Between Data and Visualization
– The Daily Egg - 7 Steps to Make Your Infographic a Success
– SEOmoz
Other / Miscellaneous / Overflow
- Wolfram CDF
– Create “infoapps” using always-current data. - KISSmetrics Infographics
– Useful infographics by KISSmetrics. - Better World Flux
– A beautiful interactive visualization of what matters in life. - Data Wrangler
– Interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation. - Lyza
– Analyze, socialize, decide. - A World of Tweets
– Twitter visualization. - We Feel Fine
- An exploration of human emotion. - Visual Economics
– Unraveling complexities in financial data. - ComponentArt DV
– Present, navigate and visualize your data like never before. - DOMO
– Business intelligence platform. - Infochimps
– Big data infrastructure made clear. - Evaluat3
– The best way to know your professional strengths (graphs). - Webpages As Graphics
– An HTML DOM visualizer app. - Creately
– Draw diagrams online using a collaborative approach. - Wordle
- Create beautiful word clouds. - Tagxedo
- Word clouds with style.
