10 Best Infographics of 2010

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In my opinion, these are all absolutely horrible infographics. They either spend several pages to tell a few irrelevant numbers (White House), or hide interesting data to a graphical mess (Almighty Dollar and How Much Does It Really Cost to Raise a Kid).

For example Almighty Dollar uses spherical layout for no good reason, which makes it much harder to compare bars and numbers behind them.

These are very bad. They are exactly the kind of infographic that seemed to take off in 2010 -- mostly as an SEO scam. A lot of link farming in 2010 was done by sites that offered up a custom infographic to blogs, with a link at the bottom in return. This stacked, garbage infographic style ran amok in 2010, which might as well make all of them "the infographic of 2010," sadly.

Many of these would be at home in the "what not to do" section of Tufte's book.

Also - anyone notice on the White House graphic it says that the pope visited "President Cart"?

Heartily agreed. I actually can't tell whether the OP is kidding...? I thought almost every graphic was a nightmare.

I'm gonna go ahead and jump on the infographic-hate bandwagon. The income-by-religion one is acceptable and the hipster one is funny, but they're all mostly crap.

The idea itself isn't bad - you use a series of graphs connected by some kind of flow to try and present an ideausing solid quantitative data. Unfortunately, what mostly comes out is "throw some random graphs, some irrelevant and distracting photos and a few trying-to-hard-to-be-funny jokes and hope for the best"

great

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