infographics

Sensational Spreadsheets
//Presenter: Doug Drover//

Numbers can be fun! - @[|Stats_Canada on Twitter]. Read the by-line! And, do check out @[|StatCan]

**Creating Stories with Numbers: Infographics**
//"taking a complex data set and turning it into an easily understood picture"// ([|Five Questions to Ask Before Jumping on the Infographics Bandwagon])

//The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means — allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily that otherwise would take many pages and illustrations and tables to convey. Insight seems to happen most often when data sets are crossed in the design of the piece — when we can quickly see the effects on something over time, for example, or view how factors like income, race, geography, or diet might affect other data. When that happens, there’s an instant “Aha!”… //[|How to be an educated consumer of infographics]

1. It's a visual explanation that helps you more easily understand, find or do something. 2. It's visual, and when necessary, integrates words and pictures in a fluid, dynamic way. 3. It stands alone and is completely self-explanatory. 4. It reveals information that was formerly hidden or submerged. 5. It makes possible faster, more consistent understanding. 6. It's universally understandable.
 * [|What is an Infographic?]**


 * Example**: [|Students Involved in the Arts]


 * What makes a great infographic?**

[|Data and Story]
 * 1) reliable and compelling data
 * 2) tells a story with new information/perspective
 * 3) has a quickly understood key message

[|8 types of Infographics and when to use them]

[|The Beauty of Data Visualization] (TED: David McCandless) Creating Infographics: ScreenCast [|Tutorial] ([|Easel.ly] and [|Infogr.am]**)** [|Piktochart] [|StatsCanada]
 * Resources**


 * Teaching Infographics**
 * 1) As a class deconstruct an infographic
 * 2) poster or infographic
 * 3) type of infographic (see link above)
 * 4) images, fonts, colour, white space
 * 5) examine how the data is visualized - e.g. types of charts used, flow between text and data
 * 6) Students collect infographics (could use a class pinterest page with each student having their own board)
 * 7) list what they have in common and critique
 * 8) Students create an infographic to show understanding of a concept (summative assessment)

[|Education Infographics] [|Infographics collection]
 * Examples of Infographics**