How to Make an Infographic - 8 Ways Infographics Can Deliver Visual Thinking Value

In this article, the author discusses how infographics are all the rage in social media but many don't deliver much value. They are often just pretty pictures overloaded with descriptive text, obscuring the underlying details needed to make sound assessments. The article describes eight ways strong visualizations and infographics can deliver value by providing a richer data analysis experience than the prose they are replacing. These include allowing you to convey information more simply, making processing information quicker and more efficient, revealing new relationships, offering greater clarity and accuracy, generating more possibilities, etc. The criteria discussed in the article relate closely to the old maxim about a picture being worth a thousand words.