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a chart wearing a marketing degree, promising to save you from reading.
means a visual arrangement of data, icons, and text designed to make information faster to grasp than a paragraph would.
from the word fuses information and graphic, but the idea is ancient — florence nightingale's 1858 rose diagrams shamed the british army into fixing hospital sanitation using nothing but a pie chart with teeth.
nightingale's chartconvinced parliament without a single sentence of argument
pinterest boom2012 turned infographics into a marketing content epidemic
reading speedvisuals process 60000 times faster than text, allegedly
most are liescherry-picked stats dressed up in friendly icons
for instance
nightingale rose diagram — 1858, showed disease killed more soldiers than combat
minard's napoleon map — 1869 chart of the russian invasion, called the best ever drawn
periodic table — 1869, arguably the original scientific infographic
covid case curves — 2020, flatten-the-curve graphic seen by billions