My Favorite Infographic and Visualization Internet Sites

What we see … depends on what we look for.

Do you have an interest in infographic and visualization design? A critically important skill these days, and quickly growing in importance. Here is an interesting quote from Google chief economist, Hal Varian:

The ability to take data — to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it, is going to be a hugely important skill in the next decade.

I could not agree more. To keep up and continuously learn this skill, I have found 5 favorite internet sites that provide tons of new information.

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I will share them and why I like them so much:

Visualizing.org

This site was created by General Electric and Seed Media group. Its goals include:

To make data visualization more accessible to the general public

To promote information literacy through creation and sharing

To provide unique resources to help simplify complex issues through design

The site frequently introduces challenges as competitions to the community on pressing issues of the day…