5 Habit Changing Flowcharts You Can Make in a Few Minutes
Did you know you can use flowcharts and mindmaps to create or remove habits in your life? Let's try five powerful visual examples to set five healthy goals for our lives.
5 Cool Sites to Visualize the Progress of Mankind & the World
Are we better off than before or worse? Five cool visualizations answer the big questions about human progress. You will be surprised by the answers.
Improve Your PowerPoint Presentation with Excel Data Visualizations
Nothing makes information more vivid than a great visualization. We show you how to prepare your data in Excel and import the charts into PowerPoint for a lively presentation.
How Visual To-Do Lists Can Power Your Personal Productivity
Do you like visual to-do lists or do linear lists make you more efficient? We look at five visual tools that are make your daily planning more interesting.
How to Make an Infographic for Free with PowerPoint
You can make infographics easily and quickly with PowerPoint. PowerPoint is an undercover infographic design tool that requires very little effort to produce beautiful, high quality graphics.
Power Outages Caused by Squirrels, and 4 Other Fascinating Maps
Maps are useful for getting around. But they also can be stunning tools for visualizing interesting things. Today we look at fivve maps that are more cool than useful.
Create Professional Diagrams & Charts with These 6 Free Tools
Diagrams and charts are not solely the domain of office workers and people in the business world. These six free online tools give you the power of instant visualization.
Power Up Excel with 10 Add-Ins to Process, Analyze & Visualize Data Like a Pro
Vanilla Excel is amazing, but you can make it even more powerful with add-ins. Whatever data you need to process, chances are someone created an Excel app for it. Here's a selection.
4 Data Visualization Tools for Captivating Data Journalism
Words and numbers are not enough. In the end, visuals will capture and convince your audience. Here are the tools that will help you turn your data into something great.
Show, Don't Tell! Create Interactive Data Visualization With Tableau Public
Raw numbers and spreadsheets make you yawn? With Tableau Public, free for Windows & Mac, you can turn .xls or .txt data into meaningful visualizations such as graphs and charts.
For Visual Thinkers: 2 Different Ways To Look At Your Evernote Notes
Visual thinking helps to break down complex information and give it a fresher perspective. Here are two ways to work around Evernote's linear structure and see your notes more visually.
How To Go Visual With Your Ideas On The Microsoft Research Mood Board
If you are big on using brainstorming, then a mood board could serve as a starting off point by displaying the elements of your idea. This simple tool from Microsoft makes it easier.
7 Stellar Visualizations That Help Us Fathom the Mysteries of Space
Visualizations help us fathom the unfathomable. When we have to talk about space and how it affects us, there are fewer better tools than the visual imagery of an infographic or an interactive visualization.
It’s Not Word Bling: 7 Interesting Ways You Can Play With Word Clouds
We, the denizens of the Web, who live and work here also call them as tag clouds. Call them “word clouds” or “tag clouds” – they are visualization tools that helps your brain process information in a rather unique way. But there’s a method behind the apparent jumble you see and they can be put to lot of uses because they help to jog our brains and make it see the mundane in alternative ways.
Thought Maps Were Dull? 7 Creative Google Maps Mashups Prove You Wrong
Truth be told – I don't have to break sweat to prove how Google Maps can show you the world in new fantastic ways. Seafarers used them to find new lands. We use them today to understand information. Oh, maps still do take us from New Delhi to New York, but they are also turning us into virtual tourists or helping us go back in time. That's no magical trickery, because Google Maps gives you a free rein to make something amazing out of a mashup.
Are These Circles Moving? 6 Places to Find Amazing Optical Illusions Online
Ever since I was a little kid, I've adored optical illusions. Believe it or not, but 1993 found me browsing my parents' hefty Escher art book, looking for more and more drawings I couldn't quite figure out. This fascination continued through the famous Autostereogram era, when I learned to see those cool 3D images in seconds, becoming a source of jealousy to all my cross-eyed friends.
How To Easily Create Stunning Infographics Using Infogr.am
Infographics have become an incredibly popular way to display bite-sized bits of information in easy to consume forms of charts, graphics and more. It usually takes quite a bit of designer know-how, patience and some pretty pricey software to get the job done, but thankfully there are quite a few services that aim to make that process a little easier. We've already covered Ease.ly and Visual.ly. Now we're adding Infogr.am to the mix.
10 Of The Best Tools For Creating Infographics
The history of this visual science (or art) and tells us that infographics is by no means an invention of the digital culture. The only difference between then and now is the amount of information we are swamped with. Infographics gives us a tool to cut through the noise and into the meat. Patterns, trends, and relationships become a bit more understandable.
3 Neat Web Services To Visualize & Analyze Your Last.fm Profile
With over 215,000 plays starting since 2008, I've always been a firm believer in Last.fm. If you're into getting social on the Internet, it's so much easier to link a friend to your Last.fm profile versus going on and on about your musical preferences. Last.fm allows your tastes to be an open book to anyone who might be curious, and I like that. Over the past few years, Last.fm has solidified itself as the best music scrobbling platform online.
How To Visualize Ideas, Information & Data Using Sketchnoting
If you're a student or someone who takes notes a regular basis, you may be interested in a fun and even artistic movement called Sketchnoting. Sketchnoting is like notetaking, but it includes visual notes as well as words. It's a way of conceptualizing ideas, information, and other data on paper (or a digital tablet) beyond the traditional text medium of outlining. Sketchnoting, or visual notetaking, is for clustering information and capturing big ideas.