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Presentation given by Trina Chiasson, Co-founder and CEO of Infoactive, at the Do Good Data conference. May 2014, Chicago. For questions and follow up, tweet: https://twitter.com/trinachi

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Information Graphics for EveryoneTrina Chiasson, @trinachi

I did nonprofit stuff

We had lots of data

What is aninfographic?

A graphic that presents data

Levels of interactivity & engagement

Data visualizations are hard to do

Can software help?

The perfect software doesn’t exist

Adventures in building datavis software:

infoactive.co

You probably don’t need to inventa new visualization type

Graphical perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Models

Questions?

infoactive.co/ebook • @DataDesignBook • @Infoactive

Trina Chiasson • [email protected] • @trinachi