Infographics are everywhere online and off: signs, subway maps, charts and even up there in space. From the cloud tags in the right hand column of Web sites to the sleek graphics showing the spread of swine flu virus across the country, infographics have become a pretty standard visual aid.
These are all examples of information visualization. Simply put, displaying complex data in a clear way.
I looked into the dirt on Digg and wanted to see what percentage of infographics were going popular in a 30 day period versus non-infographics. The amount of ‘dirt’ is focused on the total content in each category. The smaller ‘blue color‘ is the amount of infographics in that category. Click the thumbnail below to view full size.
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It's interesting that no gaming infographics have hit in the past 30 days, especially since gaming is generally a popular subject on Digg. I wonder if it's just a coincidence or if people would rather read gaming news than see infographics for that category.
well this is really interesting to see that offbeat has the higher percentage of the infographics and i can the reason behind is that… most of the stories over Digg are submitted with the intention of getting higher diggs… and some irrelevant story needs some sort of graphics to get noticed… so maybe this is one of the reason for such high heap in the offbeat category…. its my observation please correct me if i am wrong