13 Free Online Tools to Create Your Own Infographics
1. Wordle -
Create beautiful and fully customizable word clouds with this free
tool. Simply paste in your text and click “Go”, or specify your own
color scheme, layout, and fonts.
2. Visual.ly
is a brand new online application which allows you to create detailed
data visualizations and infographics such as the one below. They are
still in private beta-testing, however you can sign up for an invite
now. And in the meantime, you can browse the Showcase of over 3,500 of
the best infographics on the Web.
3. Twitter Visualizer
– This fun tool quickly creates a personalized infographic of your
Twitter persona based on what you tweet. You can create a solo
infographic such as the one created for me below or compare yourself to
tweeting celebrities.
4. Creately let’s
you build organized concept maps, flowcharts, and diagrams for free.
Although they do have subscription packages, users can create 5 public
diagrams with the free account. They offer an easy-to-use interface
with drag and drop shapes that will have you mind mapping in seconds.
5. Tagxedo -
Create a beautifully shaped word cloud from your blog, tweets,
delicious tags, news topic, or any RSS feed. Tagxedo lets you
customize words into stunning images.
6. Visualize.me
syncs with your LinkedIn account to create a stunning infographic of
your experience, education, and skills. You can customize how much or
how little is displayed within the easy editing interface. Fonts,
colors, and backgrounds are all editable as well. Each position and
educational entry can be moused-over to view the full job/school
description that is found on LinkedIn.
7. Stat Planet allows
you to create some amazing interactive visualizations, which you can
then use as is or create a static image. It can be used within your
browser or downloaded for free.
8. Hohli is an intuitive, simple
online chart maker. It’s incredibly easy to pick your chart type, add
some data, vary the sizes and colours and see the finished chart. The
finished charts are also very well designed and look great!
9. Many Eyes
lets you upload your own data or use data already stored on the site.
The visualisations themselves are well-designed and very
professional-looking. This is definitely the easiest way to use your own
data for online visualizations.
10. Google Public Data lets
you easily take public data and transform it into an infographic of your
choice. These beautiful, colourful graphics simplify and communicate
the data perfectly.
11. Tableau is a free
Windows-only software for creating visualisations. As you can see, these
impressive graphs are colourful and quite unique.
12. GapMinder is a free Adobe Air
(cross-platform by nature) application to ensure you have current data
on major world issues and can create visualizations for your purposes.
Data is updated yearly and released with new versions of the application.
13. Inkscape is a free vector graphic
software available for many platforms. This is the ideal free option for
the creation of your overall infographic. Simple and intuitive, you
should have no problems importing your visualizations and combining them
with other visuals to create your masterpiece.
Here are more great resources to refer as visualization tools to extend your learning.
