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The Beauty of Infographics and Data Visualization

Here in Brazil there's a magazine called "Super Interessante" (which had an Abduzeedo cover a little time ago), that always features some really cool infographics. This is a field that if you make things right, you got yourself inside a great niche.

Yesterday I went through a whole bunch of sites dedicated to the subject, which took me complety by surprise, because I dind't know that there were sites only about infographics and data visualization. I really loved it, and made a little post with some links to awesome pieces of this art. Yes, it is a true art. I hope you enjoy these, and that it will inspire you somehow. Cheers! ;)

The Largest Bankruptcies in History


Beautiful Data Visualization

Where Are All the Fish?


Beautiful Data Visualization

Who is Coming to America?


Beautiful Data Visualization

Measuring Obama's First 100 Days


Beautiful Data Visualization

Who Is Playing Sports?


Beautiful Data Visualization

There Are Drugs In Your Water


Beautiful Data Visualization

Capital Gains


Beautiful Data Visualization

Seeking Refuge


Beautiful Data Visualization

On Words


Beautiful Data Visualization

Marches on Washington


Beautiful Data Visualization

Vampire Energy


Beautiful Data Visualization

Newsmap


Beautiful Data Visualization

What does randomness look like?


Beautiful Data Visualization

The Glocal Project


Beautiful Data Visualization

Visualizing the Genome, Among other things


Beautiful Data Visualization

Power Plant and more


Beautiful Data Visualization

Google PageRank Explained


Beautiful Data Visualization

How Much Water Do You Use?


Beautiful Data Visualization

British Timeline


Beautiful Data Visualization

Casualities of War


Beautiful Data Visualization

The Sputnik Legacy


Beautiful Data Visualization

21 Ways to Visualize and Explore Your Email Inbox


Beautiful Data Visualization

17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe


Beautiful Data Visualization

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About the author

Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, a 25 years old designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. I work as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobbie for me since 1999. Here in Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! For more cool stuff, you may also follow me on Twitter.

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15 Comments

chad engle06/18/2009

That is an awesome roundup. I really like some of those and think that they are pretty inspiring and a good bank to look at before starting your own infographic.
Cheers,

Marcel Muller06/18/2009

Amazing; infographics are so cool. Though there's a lot of responsability when doing it, huh?

Cheers

m^son06/18/2009

Good stuff. Welcome to the data vis team. You can check out a pretty decent collection of infographics and data visualization here:

http://ffffound.com/home/maysun/found/

Elektric06/18/2009

Some one should do a infographics tut. And double quick. Everything looks great. Thanks for the compilation, As always it's appreciated.

iconoclastine06/18/2009

Thanks for this amazing selection - and discovery of GOOD magazine. Excellent, as usual ;)

TwistedSifter06/18/2009

There are some fantastic data visuals here! I think the use of imagery to convey data can be very compelling. It draws viewers in and taps into their creative side.

The root source of the info is still the most important but this can really amplify data for those who are more visually-learners.

bawatakco06/18/2009

you has forgot one of the most beautyfull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xhdy9zBEws

nocturn06/18/2009

Some great stuff in here, especially the first ones.

Chris Robinson06/18/2009

some really nice pieces, diggin the Bankruptcies and Obama graphics

Bryan Watson06/18/2009

Great compilation. I believe infographics are some of the most challenging types of art, as they must simultaneously serve two completely different purposes.

On the one hand, you must be able to generate a concept and have a strong graphical impact. Second, you have to accurately display the information in way that is logical, as well as fits with the overall design.

Turning spreadsheets into works of art, what a talent.

TommyFerrell06/18/2009

Inspiring :D

rutger06/19/2009

Just wondering, how do you make this kind of infographics?
Just photoshop, illustrator or are there really dedicated tools?

Honesto06/20/2009

Paulo, it is nice to know new stuff, but you based your selection mainly on GOOD magazine, which is nice, but not the best in infography that there is around. You forgot the best infographics of them all, the ones from NYTimes.
And Superinteressante's graphics look nice but actually don't have much information on them. Try looking at Época magazine, they have some really good stuff there.

Landon06/29/2009

These are really cool! I hope to design something like one of these in the near future.

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