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This infographic was submitted to us by Espresso Machine Advisor.com, who also included this description:

“Coffee has been a popular drink since the 1700s and is now the second most traded commodity in the world. But it’s expensive on the high street! Did you know that if you bought a 200 dollar espresso machine and had one coffee everyday instead of buying it from a coffee shhop you would break even in less than 3 months?”

This infographic has some pretty interesting information, and is pretty cute all on a coffee sleeve. It’s pretty simple but easy to get through, although it is fairly text-heavy. The illustrations are nice, and there is some data viz (I like the subtle pie chart in the cup of coffee when talking about coffee consumption at breakfast), but in all there isn’t very much of it.

For instance, the $12.2 billion in specialty coffee is just represented by a pile of money (and the 75% in coffee shops is practically ignored), and while I like the illustration of a “barrel of coffee”, something more like the coffee cup vs. cola can graph at the top of the IG would be more data viz-friendly. It would be especially good if maybe a few more of the world’s top commodities made it onto the graph, too.

The stat about the average price of an espresso drink was interesting. It must be factoring in espressos and Americanos, though, since I’d imagine the average price of a latte would be quite a bit higher–depending, of course, on the size of the drink!

Overall I’d give this infographic a C: it needs less text and more data viz to be a great infographic.

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This caffeinefographic comes to us from Xaluk.com. (See what I did there?)

Okay, the subheading on this infographic is hysterical. We’re based in Seattle. We know these people. We stand behind them in line alllll the time. They order this stuff with a straight face, but I get embarrassed when my coffee order has more than four words. Single tall soy latte is about as far as I’ll go without blushing.

That said, there’s some rudimentary problems with this infographic. The Venn diagram is a good idea, but this one gives no indication of proportion. Prepare yourself–I’m not just a Seattleite, I’m a former Seattle barista.

Take the intersection of milk, milk foam, and espresso. What you’ve got grouped there, in the same section, is cappuccino and latte. The problem? Cappuccinos typically have about as much milk as foam (don’t worry, I’m not going to get into wet versus dry cappuccinos), while lattes are nearly all milk with a topping of foam. Because this Venn diagram isn’t taking amounts into consideration here, someone who really didn’t know would assume that cappuccinos and lattes are exactly the same.

This infographic would benefit so much from giving individual drinks their own diagrams. One could see, by amount of overlap, the proportional difference between lattes and cappuccinos. You could also include more details, because here’s a world of difference between an espresso macchiato and a latte/caffe macchiato. (Told you this was going to get bad.) Sure, it’s created for people who don’t order insanely specific drinks… but there has to be some differentiation here. Getting a little more specific would make it stronger.

If the infographic was set up that way, picture this–a clueless coffee newbie is standing anxiously in line, waiting to get to the counter and play 20 questions with the barista about what the heck to order. Then he remembers this great infographic that shows him exactly what goes into every drink! He pulls it up on his smartphone, realizes that what he wants is called a split-shot skinny latte, and orders confidently. (That’s not too needy of a coffee order, as they go.)

Until this infographic gets much more detailed, I’ll have to give it a D. It isn’t telling the whole story, but at least there’s no unnecessary text. If all I was familiar with was drip coffee, I would know more than when I’d started–but not much more.

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Today we have a bonus infographic from Policy Expert. Policy Expert is a UK company that helps people find the best insurance. They pride themselves on being people powered, offering customer service at every step. Since this is a bonus infographic today, I’m not going to write up a long critique. Instead, why not add some comments to tell us your thoughts.

Thanks for the great comments on this infographic from Policy Expert. Keep them coming!