When authoring an infographic, it is important to explore your data and ideas to make sense of the How can I make my infographic visual? topic you’ve selected.

Explore how Visualizing can help you make sense of data and

ideas are related to one another Explore ideas, and the following are some powerful ways to Explore structure or function explore your topic. a process or sequence of events Images with callouts, Once you’ve explored through visualizing, you will photographs, anatomical visualizing want to select some of the visualizations that best drawings, or scientific Tree diagram communicate what you believe is important, and ideas 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 illustrations Venn Diagram 2 include them in your infographic. Progressive depth or Timeline of related Cyclical diagram scale, image at historical events different levels of Ways of designing the overall look and feel of your magnification 3 infographic are included in the final section. Concept map or Branching Flowchart 1 network diagram Linear flowchart

Explore if and how Add Explore if and how a quantity has an additional quantity a quantity is different in changed over time or category to a graph two or more different groups

Explore how 3500 3500 60 Explore if and how 3000 50 3000 60 a quantity is distributed 40 50 2500 2500 30 40 two quantities are related 2000 30 2000 20 20 1500 10 1500 10 0 1000 0 1000 60 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 0 50 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 40 30 Timeline 3500 visualizing Timeline Dot Plot Bubble chart 20 Multiple Multiple graph with time 10 3000 corresponding graph with time 0 2500 corresponding 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 on the X-axis on the X-axis 2000 line plots bar charts data Histogram Pie chart Two or more 1500 Explore if and how 1000 corresponding 0 Explore a quantity varies timelines 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Scatterplot with relative size or frequency by location 3500 60 3000 50 one quantity 2500

100 40 2000 Multiple 30 on each axis 1500 Bar graph 20 Dot Plot 1000 corresponding 10 0 0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 dot plots 0 Single x-y graph with Map with data Pictograph Scaled Icons two different y-axes superimposed

Titles and Subtitles Alignment and Scale Color Flow using short phrases with Relative Placement the size of an the use of color, the visual path created consistent differences arranging objects and object in relation shade, and hue to by objects and their in text size to indicate the texts to create visual lines to other objects create emphasis arrangement on start of a new idea and grouping to indicate on the page or show relationships the page designing idea units Main Idea the page subsection

subsection www.science-infographics.org This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. IIS-1217052, IIS-1441561, IIS-1441471, and IIS-1441481