Week 6 Focus Balt 318

With the last post being about how you don't want your infographic to be cluttered, this post will be about how to get the actual graphics to stand out. You will have to know what type of audience you are working with before hand so you have an idea how they think and how they will interpret the images. Even by using simple strategies like size, color, and the positioning of the image can make a difference in your point getting across. Using strategies like this can help direct your audience in the right way or to show what is important and what may not be as important. This technique would be like highlighting a quote in a book that you enjoy so it really pops out. The image below can be an example of preattentive attributes:

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You will want to show your infographic in the best quality when you present it. You could share your infographic as a PDF to ensure that no quality will be lost when sending it to someone when being used into a presentation.

Potential Clients 

1. DBI Business Interiors located in Lansing, Michigan. They could potentially need infographics to help them display new products coming out. A person I could contact would be the assistant marketing director.

2. Benedictine University baseball. They may have the need of an infographic to show what they have done the past for recruiting purposes. A person I could contact  would be the the pitching coach.

3. Benedictine University football. For the same reason as baseball, they may need an infographic that could possibly help them out with the recruiting process. A person I could contact would be the pass game coordinator.

Week 5 BALT 318 Clutter

In my first infographic, I chose to do one on my predictions on what kind of music genres would be listened to most in 2019 in Illinois. This inforgraphic is simple and straight to the point. I believe it is easy to understand and shouldnt have to much probelm understanding what is going on. Depending how who you talk to, they may have different ideas on this subject and would predict different music.

After talking with some of my friends, I decided to make some changes to this last infographic to make it even better. 

The new infrographic shows a better title to help describe what exactly is being shown and shows the top artsits that were listened to in the year prior, 2018. The one objective that stayed the same was the pie chart showing the percentages on what I believe will be the most listened to music. I chose to add the artists to show what the people listen to and use that to make a perdiction. Even though I did add graphics and words, I believe this one is better at what I am trying to get across. 

Week 4 Data Visualization

A TED Talk with David McCandless, he talks about having a solid balance between data visualization and how to have effective communication. With technology being so easy to access nowadays it is easy for most anyone to create a display and different software's to help them create them. If you talk to someone that is professional in creating displays, they would say it is not as simple as going online to create one randomly. You have to be able to connect to the people you are sharing the information with and make it easy for them to understand and comprehend. Using different types of visual techniques to help the eye be attracted to the information will make for a better display.

A system that a lot of people use and is very user-friendly is Microsoft Excel. you are able to create all kinds of different graphs to help display the information. You can edit the graphs to your liking with different colors, adding a table of contents, different graphics, etc. Finding different ways to display the content creatively is always a good idea to help get your point across to your business, customers, partners, etc.