the.com/infographic
A chart that went to design school and still can't admit it's a bar graph.
means A visual that uses pictures, icons, and layout to present information or data in an easily digestible way.
from A 20th-century blend of 'information' and 'graphic,' coined to describe diagrams and charts designed to communicate data visually rather than through text. The format itself traces back further, to newspaper and magazine graphics and the data visualization pioneers of the 18th and 19th centuries, but the word 'infographic' became common later, riding the wave of print journalism and then exploding with the rise of digital media and the internet's appetite for shareable, bite-sized visuals.
- origin
- Term dates to 1970s newspaper graphics desks
- irony
- Often takes longer to decode than the data itself
- peak era
- Pinterest-driven boom around 2012 to 2014
- secret ingredient
- Icons doing the work statistics should do