I thought I’d share a couple of cool infographics that have caught my eye recently. The top image is the ‘Cosmic 140‘ a visual representation of the top 140 twitter influences compiled by the Information Architects team. The size of the blobs indicate indicate how many followers each account has.
New City Landscapes – Interactive Tweetography Maps is the second image of a 30km radius around London compiled by Twitter data. There is some great renaming of london districts and I love the thought of ‘Soho Mountain’ in the centre of town.
If you are confused by social media or are the sort of person that likes to name drop brands with buzz words into meetings and conversations then this diagram is the one for you.
The Conversation Prism collates a colossal amount of technologies and companies into quite an easy to understand diagram. There are loads of brands I have never heard of before so it will be good to investigate and discover, you can never know everything!
That’s the beauty of this industry, always learning.
The New York Times innovation group has launched their Innovation Portfolio to showcase their archive of infographics and interactive articles. The newspaper has been forefront of pushing technology and interactivity to bring articles and features alive online.
It is however, obviously another clever marketing tool to attract advertisers and to promote the reach of the NY Times. Each case study highlights the amount of page views and the average time spent on the NY Times. This is vital data that anyone in online marketing/avertising needs to create and optimise campaigns.
So what does make good information design? Well David McCandless has been pondering over this whilst enjoying a nice cup of tea. Everyone from UE’s, IA’s, designers etc etc will have a different opinion on this one but at least he’s had a stab at giving it some structure.
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