Thread: Infographics Creation

What are you guys using to create infographics?

Wikipedia has a huge list of information graphics software, but that's more comprehensive than useful.

MakeUseOf lists 10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics:

1. StatPlanet
2. Hohli
3. Creately
4. New York Times Visualization Lab
5. Many Eyes
6. Google Public Data
7. Wordle
8. Tableau
9. GapMinder
10. Inkscape

TechChai has a more selective list of 5 Amazing Tools to Create Your Own Infographics:

1. Wordle
2. StatPlanet
3. Hohli
4. New York Times Visualization Lab
5. Google Public Data

CoolInfoFGraphics provides his own personal list in What Software do you use for Infographics?:

1. OmniGraffle
2. FreeMind
3. MindNode
4. Vector Designer
5. Microsoft Office

His readers also have suggestions in the comments.

But enough of these guys... what do you guys think?

Thanks, now you have gotten me that extra push to force me to create some infographics for myself.

Thx Will!

Just started playing with some of those and already used one of them ( Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds ) to create:

Happy New Year with Motorward.com Art | Motorward

Hmmmm..

Will see how I can do this for my blogs next year.

Thank you for the lists.

Very useful post. Thanks for sharing

Don't you think that infographics are a little over-done now? Too many people are creating them. Perhaps it's time to move on since they're not as effective as they used to be...

Think I read somewhere over the past week that Cutts was looking at devaluing the Infographics link juice since it is overused/abused now by SEO's....can't remember where, maybe Search Engine Land....

Originally Posted by javanx3d

Think I read somewhere over the past week that Cutts was looking at devaluing the Infographics link juice since it is overused/abused now by SEO's....can't remember where, maybe Search Engine Land....

Cutts said that a couple of months ago in an interview with Eric Enge. It looks like it is on their hit list.

Cutts: Infographic Links Might Get Discounted In The Future