INT - ACM Tech News and the Infographic (Lesson)

ACM Tech News (Project Prep)

Infographics

In the upcoming project, you will be creating an you will be using an ACM Tech News article as the basis for the creation of an infographic to spur curiosity.  Let's take a look at an example that catches your eyes but may say too much with the wording. The infographic below gives transportation facts in London for planning and implementing transportation at the 2012 Olympics. Note the use of test is not a paragraph, but probably has more words than needed.  Can the visuals help draw people in to analyze meaning? Additionally, note the various use of visuals including representation of data. Importantly, note that the infographic stays on the transportation topic, finding various ways to portray transportation items.

Note the various types of data representation on the infographic above. How many can you find?

  • 2.6 km of track.
  • 200,000 luggage pass through the Heathrow airport.
  • Note the data chart of people for Arrivals of Heads of state, a unique and interesting way to depict the data with little text.
  • All of the items have a data item for all of the depictions. Some use in a representative pictorial as in the 2.6 km of track or luggage and others used the data scale over time. 

Constructive Comment 1:  Yes there are lots of words here and we are striving for less. But note that some of this information could be moved for explanation in the document for question answers.  The remainder can probably be condensed. For example, the number of commuters could have a headline of 83,000 commuters in 2016, 46,000 more than previous peak in 2008. The repeat of the station name for 2008 and 2016 is not needed. Or a graphic could have represented the differences without having to say the words, i.e. a quick comparison graphic or a graphic showing how much more. Think and evaluate the needs of words versus graphics.  Use graphics over the words.

Constructive Comment 2:  Did the word luggage need to be used as there is a picture of the luggage? Let interpretation of images be your guide.   Maybe the caption only needed to be "Game related thru Heathrow".  Could the viewer figure out that luggage or baggage was the intent?  Make the viewer engage with the image. 

Constructive Comment 3:  Remember, the word processing document is for the detail of words. Using captions that are concise with applicable images or graphics, highlights what you want to get across.  Allow a document to fill in the details. 

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