You've heard the terms "data visualization" and "infographic"--but are they the same thing? Do designers, executives, and readers alike need to understand why they may be very different?

Infographics can Include Data Visualizations. Infographics can contain Data Visualization but it can never happen the other way round. Another approach to distinguish between the two methods would ...

There is a flood gate of data being released on the daily basis, we hear 10 billion there, 800 billion there, 30 million there, after a while, these numbers start to lose meaning because they lack ...

Infographics (or data visualizations) are all the rage in content marketing today, and Visual.ly is launching with hopes of becoming “the largest community for sharing, creating and promoting ...

Data Visualization for the Rest of Us Tips for effective infographics. By Sanhita SinhaRoy | January 9, 2016. Linda Hofschire knew something had to be done. ... Infographics can play a powerful role, ...

Data visualization helps to create a shared understanding. Throughout my working life I have been in situations, for example during a meeting, where a number of people discussed the same topic but ...

We love infographics here at The Next Web, so we were recently interested to hear about the impending launch of a hub for data visualizations. Today, Visual.ly goes live as a place for data ...

As explained in this Edraw article, every data visual has one of the five key objectives—distribution, composition, relationship, trend and comparison. • Distribution: The visuals show how ...

Effective infographics can still be fun In his new book on information graphics and data visualization, Alberto Cairo uses examples like this map of Chinese worldwide exports by Italy’s Il Sole ...

Every year, more than one million scientific articles are published in the life sciences. Two-thirds of them include ...

Data visualization takes your data (numbers) and places it in a visual context, such as a chart, graph, or map. ... Data art. Heatmaps. Dashboards. Infographics. And many more.