Roundups February 27, 2012

Over 100 Incredible Infographic Tools and Resources (Categorized)

Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series published every Monday that examines the top 100 tech tools in a given category. Follow @DailyTekk on Twitter to make sure you don’t miss a week!

I love a good infographic! After all, knowledge is power and the visualization of data makes absorbing information all the easier. Well-designed infographics have a way of pulling me into a subject I’d normally never care to know about. As a designer I can attest to the crazy amount of time it takes to make a compelling, useful infographic. I have to say I knew about many of the great links, resources and tools I’ve linked to here on this post before but I dug deep and found some new and exciting infographic tools that I’m willing to bet you haven’t seen before. Items 1-5 under the Data Visualization Tools and Software category are sufficiently capable of arming even a novice designer with the ability to produce a powerful infographic (though I’m sure experts will find them handy as well). In short, if you love infographics, data visualization and information design as much as I do, you’re going to love this post. As always, leave me a comment with your thoughts and suggestions!

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  1. The Best Blogs and Websites about Infographics
  2. Data Visualization Tools and Software
  3. Data Sources
  4. Create Personal Infographics
  5. Javascript / Flash Infographic Tools
  6. Great Infographic Studios and Designers
  7. Infographic Articles and Tutorials
  8. Other / Miscellaneous / Overflow

The Best Blogs and Websites about Infographics

  1. Visual.ly - Awesome community for creating and sharing infographics.
  2. Information Aesthetics – The relationship between design and information.
  3. Visualizing.org - Making sense of complex issues through data and design.
  4. Visual Complexity - A resource for the visualization of complex networks.
  5. Daily Infographic - A new infographic every day.
  6. GOOD Infographics - GOOD Magazine’s excellent infographics section.
  7. Information Is Beautiful – Ideas, issues, knowledge, data – visualized.
  8. Infographic of the Day – Fast Company’s excellent and long running series.
  9. FlowingData - Exploring how designers, scientists visualize data.
  10. Datastore / Datablog – Two great data journalism sites from the Guardian.
  11. Infographics Archive – A visual library offering infographics.
  12. Visual Loop - There’s an infographic for it… even if it didn’t happen!
  13. Infographr – All about infographics.
  14. Newsilike – An infographics blog from India.
  15. Video Infographics – Motion infographics that explain, educate or inform.
  16. Datavisualization.ch – A news and knowledge resource for data visualization.
  17. VisualJournalism – 80% of the news in infographics.
  18. Eagereyes – Reflections on the visual communication of data.
  19. Amazing Infographics - Cool information graphics.
  20. Submit Infographics - Share and rate infographics.
  21. The Infographics Showcase – Collecting infographics.
  22. I Love Charts – A Tumblr blog about charts.
  23. Well Formed Data – An infographics blog by a freelance data visualizer.
  24. Best Infographics – Pointing you toward great infographics.
  25. Infographic List – For those who love infographics.

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Data Visualization Tools and Software

  1. Piktochart – Transforms your information into memorable presentations.
  2. Infogr.am - Create interactive charts and infographics.
  3. Gephi – Like Photoshop for data. Graph visualization and manipulation software.
  4. Tableau Public - Free data visualization software.
  5. Free Vector Infographic Kit – Vector infographic elements from MediaLoot.
  6. easel.ly – Create infographics online.
  7. Weave – Web-based analysis and visualization environment.
  8. iCharts – Charts made easy.
  9. ChartsBin – A web-based data visualization tool.
  10. GeoCommons – See your data on a map.
  11. VIDI – A suite of powerful Drupal visualization modules.
  12. Prefuse – Information visualization software.
  13. StatSilk – Desktop and online software for mapping and visualization.
  14. Gliffy – Online diagram and flowchart software.
  15. Hohli – Online charts builder.
  16. Many Eyes – Lets you upload data and create visualizations.
  17. Google Chart Tools – Display live data on your site.

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Data Sources

  1. DataMarket – Find and understand data.
  2. The Data Hub – The easy way to get, use and share data.
  3. Knoema – Your personal knowledge highway.
  4. WorldMap – Explore, visualize and publish geographic information.
  5. Get the Data – Ask and answer data questions.
  6. Influence Explorer – Provides overviews of political influence data for politicians.
  7. US Census Bureau – Measures America (people, places, economy).
  8. datacatalogs.org – A comprehensive list of open data catalogs.
  9. Freebase – An entity graph of people, places and things from Google.
  10. World Bank Data – The world at a glance (key development indicators).
  11. Data360 – Telling compelling and data-driven stories.
  12. Number Of – You ask, they count.
  13. Gallup – Public opinion polls.
  14. EveryBlock – Uncovers info on large cities contained in government databases.
  15. Daytum – Helps you collect, organize and communicate your everyday data.
  16. Google Public Data - Filter and animate data sets from around the world.
  17. Gapminder - Displays time series of development statistics for all countries.
  18. Munterbund - Graphical visualization of text similarities in essays.

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Create Personal Infographics

  1. Biogrify - Create a fun visual snapshot of your life.
  2. Vizify TweetSheet - Your Twitter activity as an instant infographic.
  3. Photo Stats - App for creating iPhone infographics out of your photo data.
  4. Re.vu - A visual resume tool.
  5. Vizualize.me - Visualize your resume in one click.
  6. Kinzaa - Build your infographic resume.

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JavaScript / Flash Infographic Tools

  1. KeyLines - A JavaScript toolkit for visualizing networks.
  2. d3.js - Free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.
  3. InfoVis Toolkit - A JavaScript tool for creating interactive data visualizations.
  4. Flare - Makes it easy to create interactive data visualizations (ActionScript).
  5. JS Charts - Free JavaScript charts.
  6. FusionCharts - JavaScript (HTML5) and Flash charts.
  7. amCharts - JavaScript and HTML charts.
  8. Highcharts - Interactive JavaScript charts.

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Great Infographic Studios and Designers

  1. Column Five - Creating visual content that brings people to your site.
  2. FFunction – Data visualization consulting.
  3. Interactive Things – A user experience and data visualization studio.
  4. Periscopic - An agency whose tagline is “do good with data”.
  5. Fathom - Helps clients understand and express complex data.
  6. JESS3 - Creative agency specializing in data visualization.
  7. Visual Evolution – London-based infographic design.
  8. Lemon.ly – Create understanding through visuals.
  9. Prime Infographics – Creates custom infographics for businesses.

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Infographic Articles and Tutorials

  1. How to Create Outstanding Modern Infographics – Vectortuts+
  2. Infographic: Do-It-Yourself Guide to Infographics – Marketing Tech Blog
  3. A Few Rules for Making Homemade Infographics – The Atlantic Wire
  4. The Do’s and Don’ts of Infographic Design – Smashing Magazine
  5. How to Create a Great Infographics (Slideshow) – The Content Lab
  6. Design a Magazine Infographic – Digital Arts
  7. Create an Infographic Typography Animation – aetuts+
  8. How to Create Great Infographics – .net magazine
  9. The Anatomy of an Infographic – SpyreStudios
  10. How to Strike a Balance Between Data and Visualization – The Daily Egg
  11. 7 Steps to Make Your Infographic a Success – SEOmoz

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Other / Miscellaneous / Overflow

  1. Wolfram CDF – Create “infoapps” using always-current data.
  2. Kaggle – Making data science a sport.
  3. KISSmetrics Infographics – Useful infographics by KISSmetrics.
  4. Better World Flux – A beautiful interactive visualization of what matters in life.
  5. Data Wrangler – Interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation.
  6. Lyza – Analyze, socialize, decide.
  7. A World of Tweets – Twitter visualization.
  8. QlikView – Business intelligence for everyone.
  9. We Feel Fine - An exploration of human emotion.
  10. Visual Economics – Unraveling complexities in financial data.
  11. ComponentArt DV – Present, navigate and visualize your data like never before.
  12. DOMO – Business intelligence platform.
  13. Infochimps – Big data infrastructure made clear.
  14. Evaluat3 – The best way to know your professional strengths (graphs).
  15. Webpages As Graphics – An HTML DOM visualizer app.
  16. Creately – Draw diagrams online using a collaborative approach.
  17. Wordle - Create beautiful word clouds.
  18. Tagxedo - Word clouds with style.

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About Chris McConnell

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Chris McConnell is the founder and editor of DailyTekk.com. Chris is currently the IT Director for a Denver-based nonprofit, has a background in graphic and web design and is also an entrepreneur (co-founded, along with his wife, a nonprofit organization called Nede).

64 Responses to “Over 100 Incredible Infographic Tools and Resources (Categorized)” Subscribe

  1. tssveloso February 27, 2012 at 11:32 am #

    Hi, Chris, thank you so much for putting this awesome list together, and for including Visual Loop.

    Keep up the great work!

    @TSSVeloso / @visualoop

    Reply
  2. Jeff Bennett February 27, 2012 at 12:00 pm #

    Very nice collection. Thanks for including me.

    Reply
  3. Alberto February 28, 2012 at 2:23 am #

    wonderfull list, thank you

    Reply
  4. Nurit Peres (@nuritps) February 28, 2012 at 4:55 am #

    and not a word about mobile… how weird…

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    • Chris McConnell February 28, 2012 at 6:36 am #

      See “Photo Stats” under Create Personal Infographics… it’s a cool iPhone app…

      Reply
  5. prof_kemp February 28, 2012 at 12:07 pm #

    Outstanding work Chris – thank you!

    prof_kemp

    Reply
  6. Sebastiaan February 28, 2012 at 12:31 pm #

    Hi Chris,

    Amazing collection, thank you so much for including the Infographics Archive!

    Kind regards,

    Sebastiaan
    @infographics4u
    InfographicsArchive.com

    Reply
  7. okelliott February 28, 2012 at 1:50 pm #

    this is fabulous. i’m a teacher about to teach a unit in creating data visualizations, and while i have my own growing list of bookmarks, your up-to-date, large, and yet not totally overwhelming list is a great help.

    Reply
  8. Ram Akella February 28, 2012 at 9:21 pm #

    Hi Chris, This information, that too, in groups is awesome and terrific. In the last few months I was searching for something similar and this turned out to be gold.. terrific job. Don’t forget to keep this post up-to-date please. Cheers.

    Reply
  9. Ariela Ross February 29, 2012 at 11:45 am #

    Hey Chris,

    Thanks for including Visual.ly in your thorough list of some truly amazing infographic resources. We look forward to more great articles to come.

    - Ariela, Community Manager at Visual.ly

    Reply
  10. waiknot March 1, 2012 at 4:39 pm #

    Awesome list! Thank you to Amar Trivedi @Mr_madness

    Reply
  11. Vladimir Bougay March 1, 2012 at 10:41 pm #

    Knoema.com is definitely missing from this list.Should be in both Data Sources and Data Visualization Tools sections.

    Reply
  12. Dean Meyers (@deanmeistr) March 2, 2012 at 9:48 am #

    May I suggest you include http://www.roambi.com/ to the list of BI/Visualization tools and http://www.creately.com for those of us who are into diagramming (and want to do it collaboratively?)

    Reply
  13. Mefance March 2, 2012 at 11:14 pm #

    Reblogged this on I Fatti Tuoi and commented:
    Un’utilissima lista di strumenti e risorse per la creazione di infografiche.

    Reply
  14. Simon @ Web Design Bournemouth March 3, 2012 at 2:28 pm #

    Really useful set of links, will help any online business. Thanks for sharing, I’ve booked marked this as I’m sure I’ll need to revisit :P

    Reply
  15. praxislandarch March 4, 2012 at 12:20 pm #

    Reblogged this on Praxis in Landscape Architecture and commented:
    Comprehensive set of blogs and websites.

    Reply
  16. @RobertHarm March 4, 2012 at 1:29 pm #

    May I suggest you include http://www.mapsmarker.com to the list of BI/Visualization tools? This WordPress plugin allows you to pin, organize & show your favorite places through OpenStreetMap/WMTS, Google Maps/Earth (KML), GeoJSON or Augmented-Reality browsers.
    Thanks
    Robert

    Reply
  17. Jonathan Gray March 5, 2012 at 6:32 am #

    For data sources there is also DataCatalogs.org, TheDataHub.org and GetTheData.org.

    Reply
  18. hovavo March 6, 2012 at 1:17 am #

    Google is deprecating Image Charts in favor of their interactive vis library – http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

    Reply
  19. @nfpdata March 13, 2012 at 1:05 pm #

    I suggest the work of Edward Tufte and Stephen Few are worth investigating:

    http://www.edwardtufte.com
    http://www.perceptualedge.com

    Reply
  20. Infographicas March 13, 2012 at 2:12 pm #

    Hi Chris, Superb list of resources. Would be great if you could add http://www.infographicas.com to your next article as part of the blogs and Web sites category.
    Thanks,
    Infographicas

    Reply
  21. Little Red March 18, 2012 at 4:44 pm #

    Reblogged this on sallyann16.

    Reply
  22. kamrulqwe March 23, 2012 at 12:41 pm #

    Thank you for mentioning Position2 Brand Monitor.

    Reply
  23. Eran B.Y March 26, 2012 at 6:05 am #

    man, you’re a useful dude. and the best curator i came a cross so far. keep on the good work.

    Reply
  24. Jon Hazell April 5, 2012 at 7:22 am #

    Chris, is there any reason why you left out Dundas from this list? I would have thought that they would definitely be included considering their current dashboard platform and the fact that it was their old data visualization components that Microsoft acquired and included in VS 2010, RS 2008/R2, and Sharepoint. http://www.dundas.com

    Reply
    • Chris McConnell April 5, 2012 at 9:39 am #

      Hey Jon, no actually, simply hadn’t heard of it. Thanks for brining it to our attention!

      Reply

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