Over 100 Incredible Infographic Tools and Resources (Categorized)

See the original post at http://dailytekk.com/2012/02/27/over-100-incredible-infographic-tools-and-resources/

 I love a good infographic! After all, knowledge is power and the visualization of data makes absorbing information all the easier. Well-designed infographics have a way of pulling me into a subject I’d normally never care to know about. As a designer I can attest to the crazy amount of time it takes to make a compelling, useful infographic. I have to say I knew about many of the great links, resources and tools I’ve linked to here on this post before but I dug deep and found some new and exciting infographic tools that I’m willing to bet you haven’t seen before. Items 1-5 under the Data Visualization Tools and Software category are sufficiently capable of arming even a novice designer with the ability to produce a powerful infographic (though I’m sure experts will find them handy as well). In short, if you love infographics, data visualization and information design as much as I do, you’re going to love this post. As always, leave me a comment with your thoughts and suggestions!

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1. The Best Blogs and Websites about Infographics
2. Data Visualization Tools and Software
3. Data Sources
4. Create Personal Infographics
5. Javascript / Flash Infographic Tools
6. Great Infographic Studios and Designers
7. Infographic Articles and Tutorials
8. Other / Miscellaneous / Overflow

THE BEST BLOGS AND WEBSITES ABOUT INFOGRAPHICS

1. Visual.ly - Awesome community for creating and sharing infographics.
2. Information Aesthetics – The relationship between design and information.
3. Visualizing.org - Making sense of complex issues through data and design.
4. Visual Complexity - A resource for the visualization of complex networks.
5. Daily Infographic - A new infographic every day.
6. GOOD Infographics - GOOD Magazine’s excellent infographics section.
7. Information Is Beautiful – Ideas, issues, knowledge, data – visualized.
8. Infographic of the Day – Fast Company’s excellent and long running series.
9. FlowingData - Exploring how designers, scientists visualize data.
10. Datastore / Datablog – Two great data journalism sites from the Guardian.
11. Infographics Archive – A visual library offering infographics.
12. Visual Loop - There’s an infographic for it… even if it didn’t happen!
13. Infographr – All about infographics.
14. Newsilike – An infographics blog from India.
15. Video Infographics – Motion infographics that explain, educate or inform.
16. Datavisualization.ch – A news and knowledge resource for data visualization.
17. VisualJournalism – 80% of the news in infographics.
18. Eagereyes – Reflections on the visual communication of data.
19. Amazing Infographics - Cool information graphics.
20. Submit Infographics - Share and rate infographics.
21. The Infographics Showcase – Collecting infographics.
22. I Love Charts – A Tumblr blog about charts.
23. Well Formed Data – An infographics blog by a freelance data visualizer.
24. Best Infographics – Pointing you toward great infographics.
25. Infographic List – For those who love infographics.

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DATA VISUALIZATION TOOLS AND SOFTWARE

1. Piktochart – Transforms your information into memorable presentations.
2. Infogr.am - Create interactive charts and infographics.
3. Gephi – Like Photoshop for data. Graph visualization and manipulation software.
4. Tableau Public - Free data visualization software.
5. Free Vector Infographic Kit – Vector infographic elements from MediaLoot.
6. easel.ly – Create infographics online.
7. Weave – Web-based analysis and visualization environment.
8. iCharts – Charts made easy.
9. ChartsBin – A web-based data visualization tool.
10. GeoCommons – See your data on a map.
11. VIDI – A suite of powerful Drupal visualization modules.
12. Prefuse – Information visualization software.
13. StatSilk – Desktop and online software for mapping and visualization.
14. Gliffy – Online diagram and flowchart software.
15. Hohli – Online charts builder.
16. Many Eyes – Lets you upload data and create visualizations.
17. Google Chart Tools – Display live data on your site.

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DATA SOURCES

1. DataMarket – Find and understand data.
2. The Data Hub – The easy way to get, use and share data.
3. Knoema – Your personal knowledge highway.
4. WorldMap – Explore, visualize and publish geographic information.
5. Get the Data – Ask and answer data questions.
6. Influence Explorer – Provides overviews of political influence data for politicians.
7. US Census Bureau – Measures America (people, places, economy).
8. datacatalogs.org – A comprehensive list of open data catalogs.
9. Freebase – An entity graph of people, places and things from Google.
10. World Bank Data – The world at a glance (key development indicators).
11. Data360 – Telling compelling and data-driven stories.
12. Number Of – You ask, they count.
13. Gallup – Public opinion polls.
14. EveryBlock – Uncovers info on large cities contained in government databases.
15. Daytum – Helps you collect, organize and communicate your everyday data.
16. Google Public Data - Filter and animate data sets from around the world.
17. Gapminder - Displays time series of development statistics for all countries.
18. Munterbund - Graphical visualization of text similarities in essays.

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CREATE PERSONAL INFOGRAPHICS

1. Biogrify - Create a fun visual snapshot of your life.
2. Vizify TweetSheet - Your Twitter activity as an instant infographic.
3. Photo Stats - App for creating iPhone infographics out of your photo data.
4. Re.vu - A visual resume tool.
5. Vizualize.me - Visualize your resume in one click.
6. Kinzaa - Build your infographic resume.

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JAVASCRIPT / FLASH INFOGRAPHIC TOOLS

1. KeyLines - A JavaScript toolkit for visualizing networks.
2. d3.js - Free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.
3. InfoVis Toolkit - A JavaScript tool for creating interactive data visualizations.
4. Flare - Makes it easy to create interactive data visualizations (ActionScript).
5. JS Charts - Free JavaScript charts.
6. FusionCharts - JavaScript (HTML5) and Flash charts.
7. amCharts - JavaScript and HTML charts.
8. Highcharts - Interactive JavaScript charts.

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GREAT INFOGRAPHIC STUDIOS AND DESIGNERS

1. Column Five - Creating visual content that brings people to your site.
2. FFunction – Data visualization consulting.
3. Interactive Things – A user experience and data visualization studio.
4. Periscopic - An agency whose tagline is “do good with data”.
5. Fathom - Helps clients understand and express complex data.
6. JESS3 - Creative agency specializing in data visualization.
7. Visual Evolution – London-based infographic design.
8. Lemon.ly – Create understanding through visuals.
9. Prime Infographics – Creates custom infographics for businesses.

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INFOGRAPHIC ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

1. How to Create Outstanding Modern Infographics – Vectortuts+
2. Infographic: Do-It-Yourself Guide to Infographics – Marketing Tech Blog
3. A Few Rules for Making Homemade Infographics – The Atlantic Wire
4. The Do’s and Don’ts of Infographic Design – Smashing Magazine
5. How to Create a Great Infographics (Slideshow) – The Content Lab
6. Design a Magazine Infographic – Digital Arts
7. Create an Infographic Typography Animation – aetuts+
8. How to Create Great Infographics – .net magazine
9. The Anatomy of an Infographic – SpyreStudios
10. How to Strike a Balance Between Data and Visualization – The Daily Egg
11. 7 Steps to Make Your Infographic a Success – SEOmoz

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OTHER / MISCELLANEOUS / OVERFLOW

1. Wolfram CDF – Create “infoapps” using always-current data.
2. Kaggle – Making data science a sport.
3. KISSmetrics Infographics – Useful infographics by KISSmetrics.
4. Better World Flux – A beautiful interactive visualization of what matters in life.
5. Data Wrangler – Interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation.
6. Lyza – Analyze, socialize, decide.
7. A World of Tweets – Twitter visualization.
8. QlikView – Business intelligence for everyone.
9. We Feel Fine - An exploration of human emotion.
10. Visual Economics – Unraveling complexities in financial data.
11. ComponentArt DV – Present, navigate and visualize your data like never before.
12. DOMO – Business intelligence platform.
13. Infochimps – Big data infrastructure made clear.
14. Evaluat3 – The best way to know your professional strengths (graphs).
15. Webpages As Graphics – An HTML DOM visualizer app.
16. Creately – Draw diagrams online using a collaborative approach.
17. Wordle - Create beautiful word clouds.
18. Tagxedo - Word clouds with style.

About the author

Chris McConnell is the founder and editor of DailyTekk.com. Chris is currently the IT Director for a Denver-based nonprofit, has a background in graphic and web design and is also an entrepreneur (co-founded, along with his wife, a nonprofit organization called Nede).