10 Best Tools for beautiful infographics and data visualizations
BY WBD TEAM · FEBRUARY 2015
Content is the king, everyone knows that. But what makes content looks better? Content is no longer just text. It is important to make visual content because human brain process visual information much faster than text. With infographics, you can make complex and boring data interesting. However, illustrative infographics come at a price: Creating good infographics is extremely time-consuming. So we collected some great tools to easily create interesting infographics. Here are my favorites to create your own, great infographics and visual contents (without Photoshop!).
Visme is the Swiss army knife of the visual content. The web-based app offers everything from a single source and creates professional infographics, interactive presentations, banners, charts, and graphs. You can choose from 20 free infographic templates that are beautiful to look at – more than any other tool.
With Visual.ly Not only can you create infographics, but also share them with the community. Upload your own infographics and discover what’s hot among users and staff.
Piktochart offers nine free templates for infographics. If you want more, you have to get the Pro version. Fonts, icons, colors, etc. The templates can be customized.
Infogr.am is an online tool for creating various interactive charts and graphs. You can choose from six free templates and create pie charts, column, curves and matrix diagrams.
Easel.ly has an easy to understand user interface and gives good tips for new projects. The templates are called here Visual Themes and Vhemes.
Creately is a fairly modern tool with which you can create your own sizable diagrams. For testing, registration is not necessary.
SIMILE Widgets is an open-source project of the MIT. With the free open source widgets you can create timelines, maps and visualizations.
With a single click you can create creative and fancy interactive resumes, by simply synchronize with your LinkedIn account – this is as simple as ingenious.
ChartsBin specializes in the online creating charts and graphs. Data can be completely visualized without programming skills and integrated into websites, blogs or social media.
With Dipity create your own interactive timeline and include them in no time. Dipity has made it his mission to organize web content by date and time – and that the tool can look pretty good!
Big Data is becoming more and more important so we need to focus on visualization. Infographics, charts, and widgets make it easier for your websites and social media to attract customers and readers and generate more traffic. Do you want to spice up your pages with cool visualizations, but have no time even for the design in Photoshop, or your budget does not allow external help, just try one of the featured tools.
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