Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge.
These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education.
With an information graphic, computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians develop and communicate concepts using a single symbol to process information.
Today information graphics surround us in the media, in published works both pedestrian and scientific, in road signs and manuals.
In newspapers, infographics are commonly used to show the weather, as well as maps and site plans for newsworthy events, and graphs for statistical data.
Modern maps, especially route maps for transit systems, use infographic techniques to integrate a variety of information, such as the conceptual layout of the transit network, transfer points, and local landmarks.
Traffic signs and other public signs rely heavily on information graphics, such as stylized human figures (the ubiquitous stick figure), icons and emblems to represent concepts such as yield, caution, and the direction of traffic.
In prehistory, early humans created the first information graphics: cave paintings and later maps.
Traffic signs and other public signs rely heavily on information graphics, such as stylized human figures (the ubiquitous stick figure), icons and emblems to represent concepts such as yield, caution, and the direction of traffic.
In prehistory, early humans created the first information graphics: cave paintings and later maps.
In 1857, English nurse Florence Nightingale used information graphics persuading Queen Victoria to improve conditions in military hospitals, principally the Coxcomb chart, a combination of stacked bar and pie charts, depicting the number and causes of deaths during each month of the Crimean War.
Information graphics are visual devices intended to communicate complex information quickly and clearly.
The devices include, according to Doug Newsom (2004), charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, maps and lists.
The basic material of an information graphic is the data, information, or knowledge that the graphic presents.
The information graphic might also feature a key which defines the visual elements in plain English.
Information graphics are visual devices intended to communicate complex information quickly and clearly.
The devices include, according to Doug Newsom (2004), charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, maps and lists.
The basic material of an information graphic is the data, information, or knowledge that the graphic presents.
The information graphic might also feature a key which defines the visual elements in plain English.
At a fundamental level, the skills of decoding individual graphic signs and symbols must be acquired before sense can be made of an information graphic as a whole.
A statistician and sculptor, Edward Tufte has written a series of highly regarded books on the subject of information graphics.
Sullivan is also one of the few authors who have written about information graphics in newspapers.
Likewise the staff artists at USA Today, the colorful United States newspaper that debuted in 1982, firmly established the philosophy of using graphics to make information easier to comprehend.
Close and strongly related to the field of information graphics, is information design.
A statistician and sculptor, Edward Tufte has written a series of highly regarded books on the subject of information graphics.
Sullivan is also one of the few authors who have written about information graphics in newspapers.
Likewise the staff artists at USA Today, the colorful United States newspaper that debuted in 1982, firmly established the philosophy of using graphics to make information easier to comprehend.
Close and strongly related to the field of information graphics, is information design.
The field of journalism has incorporated and applied information graphics to the news through a system called the maestro concept.
Teamwork and collaboration on a story bring that story to life by integrating photographs, design and information graphics along with the reporting.
Teamwork and collaboration on a story bring that story to life by integrating photographs, design and information graphics along with the reporting.
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