Infographics:

    Lots of information graphically

Infographics are the Rolls Royces of maps for books. They don’t all use maps, but most do. And most are packed with information.

Truth be told, you don’t often see infographics in books. You’ll see most of them in newspapers or magazines.

Why is that?

It’s not that books don’t need them. Some do. But infographics usually need more room than the smaller format of a book allows.

There are exceptions, as you’ll see in the examples below. Note that some are quite simple, but most are complex. Complexity requires a lot of room to present lots of information graphically.

This is important: The examples below are not examples of infographics that would suit your book. They are ILLUSTRATIVE of what an infographic can do:

present a lot of information graphically. Your books will surely require an infographic show different information for different reasons.

All maps and text:

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The two examples below were chosen to illustrate how differently infographics can present the same information. There are many ways to show statistics on a black-and-white map. Some are more effective than others. The bottom map is, to put it bluntly, boring. The top map, using bars instead of the statistics themselves, is much more interesting. The same information could be presented in a number of other ways.