Use Maps in Your Infogr.am Infographics

Last month the free infographic creation service Infogr.am introduced the option to include videos in your infographics. Today, I received an email from them announcing a new option for adding maps to your infographics.

To add a map to your Infogr.am infographic just select "map" from the insert menu (on the right side of the editing screen) then double-click on the map to add data to it. When you double-click on the map a spreadsheet will open. In that spreadsheet you can enter country names and data points for those countries. Your map can display data for as many countries as you like.

Applications for Education
With last month's addition of video support and today's addition of map support, Infogr.am is becoming a better and better tool that students can use to create visual displays of data and research that they gather.

Hohli - A Simple Tool for Creating Online Charts

Hohli Online Charts Builder is a nice tool for creating a variety of charts for online display. Using the Hohli Online Charts Builder you can create bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, Venn diagrams, scatter plots, and radar charts. To use create your chart first select the type and size of display that you desire. Then fill in the corresponding form with the information that you want displayed. Your chart will be generated as you enter information so that you can see how each piece of information influences the chart. When you're satisfied with your chart just click on it to save it to your computer or to grab the embed code to use on your blog or website.

You can see my sample bar chart below.


Applications for Education
The Hohli Online Charts Builder could be a good tool for any student that needs to create a data visualization for an online or in-person presentation. Because the charts update as each new piece of data is added, students will be able to see how each data set they add affects their chart's display.