The Making Of

A look back at the process and the results of 52 weeks of infography Understand
Read around the idea in Wikipedia and Google to understand the context and perspectives

Find an idea
Topical, quirky, interesting, fun, visually unexplored each week starts with an idea

Get in tou ch!

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Want One?

Find a question
Focus the infographic with a good question

Research
Hone in on information that relates to the question and pare back less relevant details

Conceptualise
Try assembling the data in lots of di erent ways. Conceptualising often starts at the idea, and involves time imagining, drawing, and prototyping
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Find data
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And work that data into a format that relates to the question and the infographic sometimes a circular process

Rene
Push concepts, sometimes several at once, testing them with trusted colleagues until you nd the best visualisation of the question and the data

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Promote
Share with networks

Publish
Tidy up the top concept, write it up, and publish it

56
Weeks
To complete 52 infographics

952
Hours
Across the year. Thats 11% of my waking and sleeping life over that year (compared to 27% of my life at work, and 29% of my life asleep)

22,467
Views
Of the blog and PDFs in Scribd. Im not sure how many people have subscribed to the blog feed

8,993
Minutes
Of other peoples viewing pleasure on the blog itself. Im not sure how much time has been spent viewing the PDFs on Scribd or the blog feed

3,134
Drafts
On average, thats 61.45 drafts per infographic

3,331,537
Points
These are vector-based infographics built by connecting points with lines. Over the 52 weeks, Ive created more than three million points

80
Languages
The blog has been translated into 80 di erent languages, including 43 Dutch, 40 Russian, 39 Polish, 12 Czech, and 10 Turkish translations

$13.57
Earnings
I thought Id try out bloggers monetisation option. And, with a click-through-rate of 0.002; its made me rich!

52-infographics.blogspot.com Design and data by Gareth Parry Week #52 20110814