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2012: The Year of the Live-Data Infographic – The Revolution Will Be Visualized (In Real-Time)

February 12th, 2012

Topics: Buzz, Digital Marketing, Innovations

In 2011, the “infographic” went mainstream. Big time. Take a hot topic, insert data,visualize in graphic form to explain aforementioned topic and, voila, infographic. Infographics have varied widely in terms of topic, tone and, unfortunately, quality. They’ve ranged from the mundane (Fashion Week Payscales) to the sublime (McCandless’s Billion Dollar Gram). David McCandless, Nick Felton, and sites