A few weeks ago Ross uploaded a video explanation of the Social Media Strategy… Take a look.

I thought this was an interesting infographic as it shows that the majority of developers work for themselves and 93% of them create free apps.

Startapp:

“We are now very proud to present our first infographic that explores everything from the companies Android developers work for to the music they listen to and everything in between.”

© 2012 StartApp

This is a pretty awesome representation. Patnering up with creative agency mono (based in Minneapolis) they got together a group of volunteers who were passionate about the traffic issue. They then hit downtown LA and with the use of “flash mobs” they produced quite a performance to alert commuters that they can make a difference…

He created the below visualization the “VIZoSPHERE” on Gephi.

He pulled data from 1645 twitter accounts that are “related to the topic of information visualization”. Accounts in the graphic are linked by relationships on Twitter ie. Friends and Followers.

Here is an exceprt from well formed data:

The accounts were determined as follows: For a subjective selection of “seed accounts”[1], the twitter API was queried for followers and friends. In order to be included into the map, a user account needed to have at least 5 links (i.e. follow or being followed) to one of these accounts. The size of the network nodes indicates the number of followers within this network.

Image Source: Well Formed Data

Excerpt from Mashable:

As technology adoption among small businesses increases, social media is an area that more business owners are becoming interested in. In fact, social media is predicted to see one of the biggest increases in online marketing spending this year, just behind website and e-mail marketing.

Alexis Lamster, VP of customers at Postling and creator of the below infographic, told us that the company analyzed nearly 20,000 Postling users to extract information on how small business are using social media.

How does your company use Social Media?

Image Source: Mashable

Excerpt from Buysight

What people buy online differs substantially from what they buy in-store. According to a study by the US Census Bureau, the bulk of sales are still in-store. There are, however, several categories in which online sales dominate each product marketplace. These include: books and magazines, clothing, and electronics. Below, we have broken down the sales for each category, to show the percentages of both online and in-store sales as a part of the total marketplace, as well as a comparison of the two in absolute terms.

Where do you prefer to shop? Do you like to go in store see, touch and feel the product you are purchasing? Or do you know what you want, get online and purchase it along with delivery? Or you could be a bit of both… You like to go in store, see your product and then come home and search for your best possible price? Let us know how you shop.

Image Source: Permuto

An excerpt from Vitamintalent.com

“We pulled together tons of agency data for this project from lots of sources across the Web. So if you find something that looks incorrect, please contact the Internet immediately. And if you’re an agency who’s not on here, but would like to be, let us know in case we get curious enough to try this again.”

Source:Vitamintalent.com

Here is one titled “21st Century Organization”

This is an exceprt from John Caswell’s Profile on Behance Network

“A 21st Century Organization is something any leader, any business – any competitive brand must be. It suggests that to survive in the complex global markets (now fiercely competitive and commoditized) the enterprise has to redesign the organizational model, streamline its systems and understand human behavior.”

On their website they explain their Philosophy (STRUCTURED VISUAL THINKING) and their Approach (4D). Group Partners also create “Excellence Frameworks” which are massive wall hanging images (approx 8ft high) that are “a way to drive excellence into the given area”.

Is your company a 21st Century Organization that uses the tools outlined in the framework?

Excerpt from Blumenthals.com:

Online marketing has two goals: engage and convert. The social side of the Internet encourages engagement, the search side focuses more on user intent and ultimately conversion of that intent into a sale.

Does your company have a set out plan like this that you would like to share?

Source: Blumenthals

After the success of his Twitterverse, he went away and re-thought the methodology of it all. He then teamed up wit Jess3 to create Twitterverse 1.0.

Excerpt from: BrianSolis.com

This time, we organized and positioned “representative” apps across 19 rings in the Twitter egosystem over the previous 12. Like its sibling, The Twitterverse is designed as a transmedia object. It’s available for free in a presentation-friendly format and also in high-res.

Source: b_d_solis

This indepth infographic gives you all the information you require to get started with online Marketing – Including a 24 week timeline that can help you get your Emails out on time and at the right time. The creator of the infographic Oil Gardner (Co-Founder of Unbounce) has also provided a thorough explanation of the artwork with steps on how to tackle each task.

This is a brilliant way to learn something new – It seems like so much fun.

Are you a visual Learner? Would this infographic help you to tackle Email Marketing?

Source: Unbouce

This is a creative representation of information, if ever I saw one – who doesn’t like playing with Lego?

Through the study of Cartography Samuel Granados explains to us (in 3D!) the immigration and emigration patterns of USA & Mexico.

Using color to differentiate zones, height to show the amount of people per state and 1 lego block to represent every 10,000 people, this is a truley fantastic and fun visual.

Designed by Big Oak for The Ear Plug Superstore & Audilio.com. This infographic is measured in decibels and illustrates that loud music and heavy machinery are the most common causes of hearing loss.

Its amazing that today 1 in 5 American teens suffer from hearing loss that is comparable to an adult in there 50′s or 60′s. Were they standing next to the speaker?

Source: The Infographics Showcase

Billshrink have shared this cool interactive – “Birth Year Inflation” – which takes your year of birth and shows you just how much prices have risen since the day you were born.

Source: Billshrink

The Census counts residents in America every 10 years…. this chart shows us the population growth for the past century – you can see the population change of the entire country or you can see each individual place by rolling over them, you can change the duration of time you wish to view (ie. 1900-1910 or 1990-2000) You can also view the density and apportionment by selecting the relevant tabs… once you are in each of these charts, there is even more data!

I like this infographic – it really is amazing to see the change over the years and to see them in this light instead of boring old data. With the amount of information they would have collected during the Census, this would have been the most effective and smartest way to distribute the information…

We can even embed it in this post!

Source: 2010 Census Data

This year was different…

This year they teamed up with creative interactive agency Jess3 to produce this good looking visualization which covers the biggest, most searched stories of the year. The stories are then divided into 5 top categories of Inspiring Acts, Natural Disasters, Financial Uprisings, Good Sports and Survivor Stories.

Its a great way to see – at a glance – all the things that have happened in the past 12 months. Its funny how some of these stories seem like a life time ago….

Source: Jess3

I say we all pack up shop and re-locate to the South Pole, they’re safe for the next 7,000 years or so.

The great thing about David’s visuals is that he will always supply the data related to his findings in a Google spreadsheet! Now that’s just plain awesome!

Source: Information is Beautiful

The results are visually pleasing… to say the least…

“Results
After a few days, a total of 281 people entered 33,871 ratings of different points of the body. The silhouette visualizations you see on Skin to Skin represent these results in aggregate, using a smoothing technique that filters out noise. The images in Sorting out Desire show the values received for each point in two ways. In one view, a version of the original photographs is shown, where each probe area is enlarged or shrunk according to the rating it received. A second view sorts the various probe regions in order of excitement.”

Source: FleshMap

Any data can be placed into an infographic – for example – take this brilliant representation of the crochet work of Madame Ulani (Aka uloni) over a 3 month period. Uloni joined a community group Etsy “who make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers” and uploaded the visualization to share with the Etsy community – and here we are to share it with you!

I recorded all my knitting and selling activity since January 1, 2009, and incorporated it into the infographic. As you can see, the graphic shows:

1. how long I knitted every day on each piece;
2. how long each piece was posted on Etsy until it sold;
3. where the items was sent to.

Source: Etsy

This interesting visualization created by Dave Potsiadlo of intridea shows how Roger Federer and Pete Sampras came to tie at Fourteen Grand slam wins.

Dave goes on to share how he came to this conclusion in explaining his techniques

With Roger Federer’s recent win of the 2009 French Open, he is now tied with Pete Sampras for holding the most Grand Slam titles — fourteen. Although the two athletes have arrived at the same destination, how do their respective journeys compare with one another? With this question fueling my curiosity, I set out to create a rich visualization of the data to add some depth to this story.

Source: intridea