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This is appropriately sparse in design. Since it’s addressing serious issues, including drought and malnutrition, I think it couldn’t get away with being any more crowded, and it certainly couldn’t use brighter colors or gimmicky illustrations. There’s a pretty good amount of data viz on here, and plenty of vital information besides. It’s very effective in telling its story and ending on the “what can be done” note.

There are places where data viz would’ve fit in fine, but for some reason it wasn’t employed. 800 people fleeing daily, 440,000+ refugees has no visual to go with it, while 45,000 tents displays images of tents, but they do not fit any sort of scale.

Also, the 1,500 refugees arriving daily is visualized, but there’s no scale given. We just see that more come from Nairobi than Mombasa, and more from there than Dadaab. A percentage or number from each would be helpful.

On a typo note, the distribution of people in need in Somalia seems in places to refer to people (Somali, Somali refugees) and in others to refer to countries (Kenya, Djibouti). That should be standardized.

Aside from those notes, this is a really well-done infographic. It’s difficult to read not because of the design or the typography, but the severity of the data. I’m glad there is a positive ending to the IG–it not only rounds out the story with the “what’s next”/“what can you do” portion that should be included in all infographics, but gives a bit of hope to an infographic about a desperate situation.

I’d give this infographic a B+. It was conscious of design and subject matter, contains lots of valuable data and visualized nearly everything available to visualize. There’s no unnecessary text or distracting imagery.

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The data here does a great job of conveying exactly what it’s supposed to. The information is extremely focused, which keeps the viewer on track and lets them get through the IG quickly–and that’s the point. (Of course, I spent a long time staring at the age distribution charts, but not because I didn’t understand them. I just thought they were really innovative and useful.) The cubic flags are also pretty visually interesting. It was really interesting to be able to follow the trends by country, and to see that 18-25 is the most Facebook-entrenched age range in both men and women in all countries.

If anything, the design is a touch drab. I think I was so fascinated by the age distribution charts because they were among the most unique data viz here, and because the font choice and extremely plain background weren’t particularly enticing. It gets a little overly blue from the age charts downward, too, which instills sort of a visual monotony. The data viz really is great, and there is absolutely no purposeless text on this infographic, but a little something to break it up might be nice. All the data viz stretches to the borders, so there’s no room to mix it up. A couple of text facts or smaller charts and graphs thrown in might actually provide the spice this infographic needs.

In summary, what’s here is great, if a little visually repetitive, but a little size and info variation could benefit the infographic overall. I’d give this infographic a B: it’s doing its job, so now it just needs a makeover.