Eric Fischer created the heat map series „See something or say something” that shows where people post geotagged photos to Flickr and geotagged tweets to Twitter from.Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures, blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets, white dots are locations that have been posted to both.
During this year’s See Conference there was an interesting discussion whether facts and figures are better transported via infographic or video. While there obviously is no clear answer to that – the “best” format being dependent on content, audience, situation etc. – it is worthwhile to compare the different effects of each format.
Here are two examples in which the same information is presented as infographic and in a video. Choose for yourself:
Obsessed With Facebook
OnlineSchools.org presented this infographic, Alex Trimpe the according motion graphics video:
The Billion Dollar Gram / Debtris US
In the second example, both infographic and animation were created by data journalist and information designer David McCandless (Information is Beauftiful):
Which format do you prefer and why?
Paul Butler, currently intern on Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team, analyzed the relationships of cities around the world through the eyes of Facebook.
Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle.
Read the whole story behind the creation of the inforgraphic at the Facebook Engineering Blog.
Get your Facebook “Like” button stamp from design studio Nation (London).
Tip: use it/the corresponding “Dislike” stamp on all your business mail.
How would Facebook look like in real life? Here’s the hilarious answer.
Check out this brilliant collection of outstanding social media infographics.
See the full list at Now Sourcing.
