Infographics

Infographics

Infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present information in a visually striking way.  Infographics are excellent attention grabs and provide an easily understood overview of information. Patrons may not have the time to read lengthy articles of information, but infographics makes data easily understandable at a glance.  There are different web apps you can use to create infographics including: Easelly, Piktochart, and Infogram. 



http://www.easel.ly/    
Easelly is a user friendly web app that allows you to use ten infographics templates to customize and create your own infographics for free.  By upgrading your account with $4 per month, you will have access to 320+ templates and 11 million objects, 112 fonts,  and 20 types of charts and graphs. The organization of the web app is awesome and templates and pictures are sorted by category.

http://piktochart.com/ 

Piktochart creates infographics, presentations, posters, reports, and flyers.  The free version allows access to numerous more templates compared to Easelly.  An individual upgrade is $39.99 per year and has access to HD image exports and PDF exports.  PRO Team is an upgrade that allows 5 users for $199.95 per year with access to exclusive PRO features.  With Piktochart's free poster maker, creating attention-grabbing visuals is simple and fast.  With the user friendly organization of Piktochart, posters and infographics can be created in minutes!  The upgrade fees are on the high end, but with the numerous free templates available with the free version, there really is no need to upgrade.

http://infogr.am 
Infogram is a free web app that creates infographics, dashboards, single chart, Facebook posts, slides, and reports. Infogram is user friendly and very well organized.  The free templates available with the free version is limited compared to other web apps.  Upgrade fees include: Individual $19 per month, Business $67 per month, and Team $149 per month.  Upgrades did have a limit on the number of projects created per month.  

After reviewing all three webapps, I chose Piktochart because it was very user friendly and had a great selection of free templates available.  My infographic was create with information from the article A Majority of Teens Have Experienced Some Form of Cyberbullying from the Pew Research Center website. 

https://create.piktochart.com/output/39673634-cyberbullying