Infographics Rise in Popularity
There is so much data out on the web today to digest that consumers are increasingly sharing infographics, simple visualizations of data, as a short hand way to communicate salient points of important research or social trends. The design blog Zubeta published a stream of 20 infographics that represent everything from patterns of consumer behavior to flight delays and the known universe. More and more, if you want to show your chops as an interactive designer, you need to be able to show you can create a killer visualization.
This video from JESS3, a creative agency, does an awesome job of connecting the dots between some different data sources and creates a view of our global Internet usage including the state of email, online video consumption, and social networking. Unlike some infographics that can be heavy on socio-political statements, this is more like a "holy cow" of stats. For instance, Facebook gets 260 billion pageviews per month, which equals 6 million page views per minute and 37.4 trillion pageviews in a year.
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