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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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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Need help to know more about graphic design as a career option [duplicate]
I was hoping to find a good forum or live chat to find out more on graphic design and whether it could be my career option.
I know most of who ever visits this place might be really busy trying to ...
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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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Term for type of design specification document that shows components used to build a final product?
What do you call a document that demonstrates the steps you took to engineer or build or create a particular design piece? What I am envisioning is a portfolio page on my website where each design ...
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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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Name of specific graphic style [duplicate]
I've come across some pictures in the last few days whose style I find extremely pretty.
So I honestly have no idea what name the style of the pictures possesses and that's why I decided to post that ...
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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 ...
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How to display data labels in Illustrator graph function (pie graph)?
I am trying to make a pie graph that has both the data labels (e.g. 33%) and the series name (e.g. "apples"). Here is an example below.
It seems this can only be accomplished through manually ...
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Conveying Tags / Categories in Print Design
I am soon to be working on a brochure design that kind of acts as a local business directory. The directory is split into different categories of businesses, however many of the businesses belong to ...
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Insert a new column or row in Adobe Illustrator's graph data editor
Is it possible to insert a new column or row in Adobe Illustrator's graph data editor? (without having to move the existing data through Ctrl + X, Ctrl + V)
I use Adobe Illustrator CC 17.0.0 64-...
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What are these line and dot graphs called?
I am looking for some kind of minimalistic network graphs but I can't find the right words to describe them.
A while ago, I discovered a webpage that has these kind of graphs but I no longer find it.
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Mirror HUD GUI design resources
I am developing software, in which the user will be reading information from a heads up display style mirror and interacting with the HUD GUI via voice commands.
I am not a graphic designer, however ...
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What's a good icon to represent “fit” on an apparel site?
I'm implementing a fit visualiser which uses an existing product that the user owns to estimate the matching size to select when buying something.
The fit visualiser is is called "Virtusize". The ...
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Critique: iPhone Repair Poster
I would love feedback on a poster I am making for "Techbox" local tech repair business. There are 3 poster boxes on the outside walls of the business with heavy foot traffic so I'm periodically making ...
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How can I present this information with less required user interaction?
Here's a typical graphic from my web app:
It shows the performance of grades 1-12 on each of four tasks (Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide). But this is only for whole numbers. Behind each of the other ...
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Create graphs on graph paper to scale
For a science lab, I am required to draw precise graphs on physical graph paper. The process is tedious as the graphs need to be drawn to precise scale and require using small numbers (such as .05). ...
