Questions tagged [information-graphics]
Questions about infographics; graphic visual representations of information and data, used to convey information quickly and clearly. Often created using a combination of text with simple illustrations, graphs, charts, maps or other visualisations.
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Properly display multi-line chart when series overlap
I am working on a report that requires a multi-line chart (representing how a given value varies over time among different groups) They are displayed in a single chart sharing both axis. My problem is ...
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Is there any quick way to write the text headings at specified rotations in a pie chart?
Please see the reference image. I know how to make pie chart in Illustrator, but not sure how can I write the rotated text (you can see around 50 text headings for 50 cells. The question is not about ...
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How to best display text over an image on the landing page
I want to do something like this (ignoring for now the fact that the image isn't properly aligned yet):
Notice the name "Barack Obama" in the center. I want to keep it that size, but I don't know ...
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InDesign: building charts in EPS or Javascript
Working with alot of business documents and would like to be able to build something like the below chart using post script code. I know something like this can be hardcoded as a plain text EPS file ...
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How to make these type of vector in illustrator?
I want to create a vector like the one attached. which tool in illustrator would help to create vector like this?
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Critique of timeline aesthetic
I am working with this timeline as seen below. I'll try to explain it a bit:
Each circle represents an event.
There are no tick marks because it's not a "mission-critical" kind of
data set.
We just ...
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How to mention the author of an artistic infographic?
I realized an "artistic page" for a social campaign which has been published on the webpage of an association.
The project was realized through Photoshop and Illustrator and what I gave to the ...
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What software is used to create these kinds of infographics and checklists? [closed]
What software is generally used to create these kinds of infographics or checklists? What do you guys use?
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How to demonstrate the efficiency of a dynamic factor in comparison with some constant coefficient with a chart?
I proposed a measure which estimates the coefficient of each sample dynamically, So the coefficient of two sample s1 and s2 can be different. To show the effectiveness of this measure, I want to ...
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Infographic for job titles [closed]
Anyone able to share any ideas/inspiration for creating an infographic with job titles? Something to be used on a website which is 1200px wide and 680px high.
The purpose of the infographic is to ...
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What do you call this specific table design?
Look at the pictures - Does this type of hierarchical list or table, where you start reading it from the left and the data become more and more narrow, have a common name?
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Color doesn't have enough contrast with either white (#FFFFFF) & black (#000000)
In android studio (official application for android programming) I have created a color I want as my primary color. However the application (Android Studio) complains that my color doesn't have enough ...
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How do I distribute large amounts of objects within a rectangle?
I want to make a video infographic for a few different video orientations (square, 16:9) and I want to highlight visually the very large amount of icons (thousands in once case which would obviously ...
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Software for the graphic realization of an illustrative book [duplicate]
I was commissioned a job that comes out a bit from the patterns of my job (programmer). I was asked to create a book for a famous interior design company. I first accepted, because it is simply a ...
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Need help choosing colors for info graphics [duplicate]
i am trying to create a info-graphics design in adobe illustrator, i divided a circle into 18 pieces i applied gradients colors to each pieces.i tried choosing colors from info graphic images from ...
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Help me decide the artboard size in illustrator
I use Adobe Illustrator for my work and I am in the process of designing an infographic which needs to be printed and also put on the web.
I understand that I would be needing a 300ppi and 72ppi ...
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How to create axes as border around an image
I want to add a XY axis with labels as a border to a jpg. In other words I want to wrap the axes around a predawn picture. How can I do that in illustrator or photoshop. Earlier, I tried cropping out ...
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How to turn a stacked bar chart into a stacked <insert polygon here> chart?
I have some stacked bar charts that sum to 100%, as shown below:
Each stacked bar represents a region in a state. I would like to take vectors of each region and fill them with their respective ...
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How do I change the order of pie chart slices?
I was wondering if it's possible to change the order of pie chart slices in Adobe Illustrator?
I would like the gray slice to be above the red one.
Changing the order in Graph Data doesn't work and ...
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Best sources to learn Infographics designing
What is the best online sources to learn infographic designing from begining to master level?
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How to use EPS to build graphs in Illustrator?
I have never made graphs before in Illustrator, but I have an incoming project where I will have to make a variety of different graphs based on large quantities of numerical data that I will be given. ...
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Animation Excel graphs on After Effects
I've been handed a set of Excel graphs and I wonder if here's anyone, who has been animating Excel graphs on AE?
I'm just looking for some “best practise” type of hints on the topic (as Google, Lynda,...
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Word representation in Graphics
Does anyone know of a good repository where words are represented as symbols/graphics. So for example, a cycle is represented as a line sketch of a cycle and a boat as a drawing of a boat. I am not ...
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How to make scaled arrows for flowcharts?
I am not sure if this is a right place to ask my question.
I need to make multiple flow charts with scaled arrows. For instance, (refer figure) A is any material and it is
Converted into B and C ...
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Most effortless way to design a spreadsheet?
I am often given either spreadsheets or word documents with lists of things that I then have to style in a graphics program of my liking. I need to create a sort of infographic like informative ...
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Is raster or vector better to create photographic infographics?
Between vector and raster editors, which should I learn to use to create infographics based on photos?
The photos all bear a black background, allowing me to lay information in the space without the ...
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Texture as an alternative to a cyclic colormap?
In the visual presentation of scientific and mathematical data, it's common to want to use hue and value to represent a direction and an intensity. People seem to refer to this as a cyclic colormap. ...
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Illustrator: how to fill shapes with a 45 degree line pattern?
Any way to fill these shapes with a pattern somehow, and avoid that duplicated line system which looks like a total mess in the keyline view below? Any cleaner way to fill shapes with a pattern like ...
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Make Illustrator Infographics Fully editable in PowerPoint
I create complex infographics in Illustrator that include both shape and text elements. From time to time my clients need a fully editable version that they can manipulate using only Microsoft office ...
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Microsoft Word Strength Meter
I have no idea if this should be created here but I have a simple question, anyone knows how to generate a skill strength meter similar to the one shown below
All the help is really appreciated, ...
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I have few PNG files, I want to make them same size and same dimension, how to do it in simple way?
I have few PNG files, I want to make them same size and same dimension, how to do it in simple way ?I dont have any software related to graphics on my laptop. pls guide.
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Alternatives to present multiple location information on a map
I have a client who thinks that there really needs to be a comma between the name of the school, and the public school zone number (CSD#). I would love a second opinion from a design perspective. ...
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Create a bar chart within a table in InDesign?
I want to represent numbers in a table I've created in InDesign as a scaled bar chart, similarly to the image below. Is there a way to do this in InDesign or Illustrator without manually adding and ...
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Popular block diagram software
What are convenient software tools for drawing block diagrams?
like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Windows_2000_architecture.png
or like this:
This question has been asked ...
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in graphic design how would you go about making something informal / open yet professional [closed]
i was told by a client to design a an advertisement banner for an event like ted talks where an industry professional is brought with stories to tell and strong backgrounds in business, to speak to up-...
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Animating line graph in After Effects
I want to animate the drawing of the lines in this graph from left to right so that they are all at the same x-position at the same time. This is a graph I made in MATLAB, exported as an SVG, opened ...
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Gnuplot: wrong numbers on scaled color bar
I used gnuplot to create a 3D surface from a data file "3D.txt" written in three columns x y z. I saw that the numbers on the color bar are ~40000 although the peak of my graph (z_max) is around 14 [...
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How to start with graphic design [duplicate]
I am new to this forum. I want to get started with graphic design. I have a linux OS , what software and books do i require to get started? Also i would like to start with pixel art . Hope you can ...
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How to build an online portfolio?
I want to build a personal portfolio so my questions related are as follows:
What should I include in the portfolio apart from Home, About, Work, Contact?
I have never worked on any real life ...
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Presenting a large number of items in one slide – too crowded or not?
I am creating a presentation and I have to list the following items
(personal information you should take care of):
Full name
Address
Social Security number
Date of birth
Mother’s maiden name
PIN
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What software is used here? [closed]
I wanted to know if you can tell me what software was used to generate these drawings:
and:
Thanks!
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Best way to design map markers based on their 'heat' parameter
I'm creating a google map, with some custom markers on it.
Each marker has a "heat" parameter, and I would like to design those markers depending on this parameter. But I can't figure the best way to ...
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How are these modern physics figures made?
I am curious to know how the figures in popular introductory physics/Engineering textbooks are made. As examples of what I mean, see the posted figures and my comments, all from various editions of ...
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graphing: show a distant cluster while minimizing negative space?
I am preparing a map of cluster assignments for a publication that seeks to minimize negative space in their figures. This is what my map looks like:
Notice the distant island in orange? I want to ...
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Drawing a circle made of lines and splitting into sections
I am looking to draw a circle like below on Illustrator for a graph. I get as far as doing the circular lines, but I just haven't been able to effectively split the circles in to equally sized ...
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Is there any scientific evidence that verifies the advantages of infographics in resumes?
I am a computer scientist currently working on his master thesis. For this purpose i developed an application which is able to produce infographic resumes. But currently im struggling to find proper ...
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Animated SVG Javascript Infographic for timeline
I am considering to make an animated infographic based on SVG, Javascript and CSS technologies of a timeline. I have lots of experience in programming but not so much in using these technologies to ...
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Improving readability of evolutionary algorithm results
One of my colleagues has results from an evolutionary algorithm that he wants to plot. The plot will be included in a paper he's writing and asked for advice. This is what he had in matlab:
I gave ...
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How to use percents in Illustrator Graph Tool?
I am currently making a bar graph with various percentages. Illustrator graph tool seems to be limited in formatting the style of numbers compared to one would in Excel. How do I set graph tool, to ...
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How to bend multiple lines of a graph in AI CS5?
I have created a radar chart with three axes, and I would like to make all the lines in the graph curved instead of straight. I havent found a satisfying way to bend all the paths (i.e. the edges of ...
