Infograph Tools and Sites

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Information graphics - how do you create infographics without any design knowledge? Piktochart is an easy infographic tool/creator/maker/designer that requires very little effort

Create infographics and interactive online charts. It's free and super-easy! Follow other users and discover amazing data stories!

Create interactive maps using the award-winning free StatPlanet software. Explore thousands of world stats through interactive maps and data visualizations.

The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like.

Create an interactive, visually engaging timeline in minutes. Use dynamic visualization tools to display photos, videos, news and blogs in chronological order. Browse through visually stunning timelines created by popular newspapers, politicians, celebrities, teachers and the Dipity community.

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Convert your LinkedIn profile into a beautiful infographic in one click.

Re.vu is a complete rethinking of what a resume can be. You no longer have to cram your experience and expertise onto a plain white piece of paper. Re.vu gives you interactive tools to visually (and dynamically) represent who you are and what you have to offer.

If you're like me, sometimes you see a great viz in the wild, and wish you could see more work by that same author. One very exciting, upcoming feature for Tableau Public will let you do just that. Introducing: author profiles. Essentially, it's a profile and a gallery of each Tableau Public author and the vizzes that they create.

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Infographics are interesting-a mash of (hopefully) easily-consumed visuals (so, symbols, shapes, and images) and added relevant character-based data (so, numbers, words, and brief sentences). The learning application for them is clear, with many academic standards-including the Common Core standards-requiring teachers to use a variety of media forms, charts, and other data for both information reading as well as general fluency.