Choose one of these dataviz/infographics... how might this be used to start a class? Why might you use them? What topics could they be used to peak curiosity?

Maps About the Recent Ebola Outbreak are Wrong

You Draw It: Just How Bad Is the Drug Overdose Epidemic?

You Draw It: How Family Income Predicts Children’s College Chances

Daily chart: A record of ancient Rome’s economy turns up in a glacier in Greenland

Income Mobility Charts for Girls, Asian-Americans and Other Groups. Or Make Your Own.

Southern Mosaic

Manifest Density

World TimeLapse

Segregation in America

Diseasome

A Handsome Atlas: Chinese in America

Growth Rings: Maps Of U.S. Population Change, 2000-2010

Mapping Migration in the US

Nuclear Detonation Timeline

Vax: A Game about Epidemic Prevention

Value of $100

More influential interface examples

How many people actually chose the 2016 presidential candidates?

State-level data of infectious diseases before and after vaccines were introduced

A World of Languages

Close the Gap

Persuasive Maps

The True Size Of...

Who are the major creators?

Fodder for making visuals...

• Visualizations that Really Work
• The Design of Everyday Visualizations
• Do Visual Stories Make People Care More?
• 6 lessons academic research tells us about making data visualizations
• L10 Tips for Designing Infographics
• Themes for a good infographics
• Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
• EDWARD R. TUFTE; Campaigning For the Charts That Teach
• ChartChooser
• How to Create an Effective Infographic

Tools for creation...

Infogr.am

Easelly

Venngage

Chart Tool

Google Apps

LucidChart

ManyEyes

Tableau

Createagraph

Chartle

ChartGizmo