March 22, 2013 • Kevin Webster
High quality infographics can be an excellent source of website traffic. It’s becoming easier for businesses without a design staff to create interesting and attractive representations of data that will be important to their customers and prospects. Here are 10 tools that can help you create traffic-driving infographics.
Visual.ly
Visual.ly allows infographic designers to share their work, and also provides a design platform for people without design skills to create attractive infographics on their own.
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Many Eyes
Created by IBM, Many Eyes allows you to upload a data set — the information you want to visualize — and then select a style, to present it as a graphic.
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Gephi
Gephi is a Photoshop-like application that arranges data in visual patterns. While it’s a stretch to say it creates infographics, it can assist you in visualizing and understanding data. Once you understand your data, you can use another, enhanced tool to display that data to your audience.
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Daytum
Daytum allows you collect and organize data that you can then use for infographics and other forms of data visualizations.
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Wordle
Wordle creates very simple — yet powerful and attractive — infographics based on word clouds. By weighting the value of words, you can create an image that depicts the importance of one concept over another.
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TimelineJS
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Gliffy
Gliffy offers a free trial of its online diagram-creation tool, and features a simple-to-use interface to create all sorts of visually appealing graphics.
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Prezi
Prezi allows users to create presentations with interactive infographics, curated videos, animations, sounds, and text from multiple sources.
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Vizualize.me
Vizualize.me creates infographics of resumes based on your data on LinkedIn. Consultants or freelancers can use this representation as a sales tool infographic for their businesses.
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DataMarket
If you need information for creating an infographic, DataMarket offers continually updated data about numerous industries and topics, worldwide.
