Communicating Practise

Task A

Infographic

Infographic is known as information graphic are graphic visual representation  of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly.

Infographic also use to improve cognition by utilizing to enhance the human visual system's ability to see pattern and trends. 3 parts of infographic is the visual, the content and the knowledge. The visual consists of color and graphic is been divided by 2 that consists of Reference- generally icon that can be used to point certain data and Theme- included in all infographics and represent the underlying visual representation data.

Data visualization are often use in the infographic and make up the entire infographic. There are many types of visualization that can be use to represent the information. There are 5 primarily types of visualization :

1. Time series data

2. Statistical distributions

3. Maps

4. Hierarchies 

5. Networking

Example of infographic:

Image 1: Infographic about geek and nerd taken at http://media.creativebloq.futurecdn.net/sites/creativebloq.com/files/images/2012/02/infographic-design-geek-nerd.jpg

Image 2: a screen shot of infographic book by Randy Krum taken at https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaARxppMAnh8s9-Zl7CP6NRSZu-XuRNSrssxAt7gYQ5v4KKV46j8fjYQDrKP1q-7_jSveAp5u8fqRu4qzuTUkhXllYZ3M1xnAP7wMUSjNTPNmw_JPTVmZa5uRpJv6CVadD82r-34RIkJk/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-12-05+at+1.11.32+PM.png