Infographics Archives - Data Soapbox

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Data Visualizations, Infographics, and Graphical Abstracts: What’s the Difference?

February 21, 2024

When I'm planning a new product with a client, one of the first things I try to get clear on is terminology. When someone wants me to develop a "dataviz" or an "infographic," what does that mean? And it's not…

This is a photo of the cover of Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure by Craig Robinson, with a Foreward by Rob Neyer, published by Bloomsbury. The cover has an outline of a baseball diamond, and on the pitcher's mound there is a pie chart showing that 43% of baseball books have a baseball on the ocver and 57% don't. The book is sitting next to a white New York Yankees baseball cap.

Book Review: Flip Flop Fly Ball

September 7, 2022

Sports geekery meets dataviz geekery in Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure by artist and illustrator Craig Robinson. As a baseball fan and research communicator, this book has been on my To Read list for a while. I…

This is a photo of a boy holding the Animals by the Numbers book.

Book Review: Animals by the Numbers

July 6, 2021

Is your child gunning for my job as Head Nerd at Data Soapbox? (No?) Do they really like animal facts, at least? (Of course.)* Great! Allow me to recommend Steve Jenkins’s Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Animal Infographics…

Prelude to the Recipe: A Systematic(ish) Review of Food Blogs

June 15, 2021

In my research and practice careers, I've worked on a lot of important and difficult health and social challenges. Substance abuse and addiction. Violence. Risky sexual behavior. This post is not about those issues. Instead, I will be addressing a…