![]() ![]() That’s the most important thing to me, anyway. While it took 20 minutes longer to create these from scratch, it forced me to really think about the data and it generated additional insights. When you use automated excel or survey monkey charts, it encourages you to skip that important step. You have to slow down to create the charts and you really how to think about you want to present your data. The visualized data remains editable, allowing for hassle-free updates and styling. This font lets you take simple strings of numbers and transform them into charts. These free tools will save you time, but you don’t have complete control over look and feel. If you remember your 6th grade math and science, you might want to skip the tutorial and check out the online chart tool (I love the meter charts). ![]() But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts. After helping my kids with math homework (they had to represent some data in a chart), I found this awesome, free chart maker at the National Center for Education Statistics. Know Your Charts and Graphs: Some infographic templates come with charts, but it is useful to take a quick tutorial about knowing what type of chart is best to represent what type of data. It has tons of icons that are easily searched by keyword and you can share your own. One of my favorite resources is The Noun Project which is a visual language site that collects and organizes symbols and icons for public use. Clip Art: There’s a lot of clip art around, although a lot of it is ugly. The infographic (it’s a snippet – click through to see whole thing) on oral health was created in publisher with clip art.Ģ. ![]() Take this template that helps you think about how to use color and chunk your information. And, ironically, the templates are just pretty, but they help guide you in planning and designing your infographic. Hubspot just published this awesome collection of infographic templates for Powerpoint. I like the Smart Art templates to help me see patterns in my data. Microsoft PowerPoint or Publisher: Both of these old standards have layout tools that make it easy to compose your infographic (and export the final product as a graphic image). I’ve been looking for free, low cost, easy-to-master tools and templates to reduce some of the sweating. ![]() Yes, the process of creating your own information design is straightforward but you need to invest some energy learning about design fundamentals and honing your visual thinking skills. For inspiration, check out this Pinboard of nonprofit infographics which will lead you to many more examples. You need to start with data, audience, and time allocation. In “ The Power of Infographics” Mark Smickilas offers some good recipes for creating your own infographics. You don’t have to be the world’s best artist to create a respectable infographic to help you make sense of your data, but it does take a little consideration and small amount of inspiration. Okay, now you’re probably getting stressed out thinking about today’s to do list, that report you have to write, and a day scheduled with back-to-back meetings – and probably think it takes days to create an infographic. And, there is no better way consolidate your insights by expressing them as DIY infographic. For me, I need to see patterns and link it back to strategy and tactics. My personal rule in measurement is to spend 30% collecting and organizing data and 70% thinking about what it means. I couldn’t agree more!īut there is another reason to consider “DIY” infographics – as a sense-making technique. Therefore, we want an end product that looks good, professional, and captures attention and if we lack graphic design chops we turn to in-house graphic designers or hire professional designers. Most of think about infographics as part of our marketing and communications tool box. ![]()
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