Create Your Own Infographics at Visual.ly

All About Instagram Infographic Infographics are a means to display numbers and data in a more interesting manner so they’re easy to consume and easy to follow. Most people process visual information more readily than numerical information, so understanding information graphics are much easier for most of the population. Up until recently there has been no reliable way to create your own infographics without Photoshop knowledge and the manual entry of data. But here comes the Visual.ly which helps you to create your own infographics as well as share and explore other people’s interesting infographics too.

Visual.ly is a service that takes specific parameters from the user and forms an infographic around the paramaters it is given. Consider it a customizable search engine to allow you to search for infographics that already exist on the Internet that relate to your specific search terms. For example, searching for “Google” through the Visual.ly site will bring up several infographics that have been created in relation to Google+ and user retention, the rise of Android, and Google’s biggest flops and failures. Each of the infographics available on the site has been created by a user and shared with others who use the site.

Using Visual.ly to Create Infographics

While Visual.ly is a great platform to share your infographics that have already been created, it’s also going to be a platform to creating your own infographics quickly and easily. The service is still in beta and as such there is limited access to the Labs portion of the site, but the rich editor will allow for image uploads and WYSIWYG editing on the fly in order to create rich infographics. A developer API is also possible that will allow the service to extract data so the user does not need to manually enter data should the data already be online.

A good example of this is the Visual.ly labs Twitterizer, which analyzes your Twitter profile to gather information about you and then presents it to you in a highly polished infographic. The first portion features a caricature of yourself that places items in your hands and gives you a t-shirt according to what you tweet about most. Books, video games, techie shirts, coffee and more are all possibilities. Below the caricature, stats concerning your Twitter usage, including how much you tweet per day, how many tweets you see per day, and how many followers you have per follower are all displayed. By the way from the recent open spats between Techcrunch and AOL, I just created infographic faceboff between @Techcrunch and @Huffingtonpost. See it below.

Techcrunch v/s Huffingtonpost Infographic

And if you want to see some more interesting infographics, below is the list.

Visual.ly is currently the premier place to look for infographics based around a number of stats and to create your own infographic based on your own Twitter usage. When Visual.ly Labs opens to the public in the near future, the robust editor will eliminate the need to be Photoshop savvy when creating infographics.