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There is a ton of information on this little graphic. It’s good to see space used efficiently, and the color scheme lends itself to old Vegas style, which is refreshing. There’s a pretty good amount of data viz, balanced with iconography, and most of the design sticks with the theme.

On the other hand, the way everything is crowded together leaves little to no room for negative space, which is a little exhausting. The Most Expensive Casinos section is one place in particular where I have a hard time focusing on any one thing. I think the inconsistent fonts is also a bit distracting to the eye.

Additionally, the multi-sentence intros at each section are daunting in an infographic. I initially am disinclined to read them because there’s so much else going on with design and data viz. Shortening or eliminating those will help–they also don’t need to be in such a large font, as it makes them look longer than they are.

The IG also seems to be at a poor resolution, which is making the skinny font difficult to focus on in places.

Better spacing, smaller fonts, and less text will vastly improve this IG, but for now it’s about as overwhelming as Vegas itself! I’d give it a B-, because it’s clearly well-researched. It just needs some room to breathe.

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This infographic was submitted to us by Slots of Vegas, who had this to say:

“This infographic brings a succulent list of gambling athletes, socialites, actors, A-listers, B-listers, No-listers and obviously one hot beach blonde to spice things up. Trust me. Gambling with celebrities is NOTHING like you see in the movies.”

The majority of this infographic is not actually an infographic–though it is really well-done. I love all the little cartoon bodies on the celebrity heads. My favorite is the human body on Marge Simpson’s head. It’s completely adorable. However, all the descriptions of what the celebrities have been up to are just that: descriptions. There is no data viz to accompany these facts, which makes all the information in the top half exclusively text.

There’s an unfortunate typo up there too–Pamela Anderson allegedly “offered x-rated ‘moves’ to settle a $250 K debt…” Given the video camera at her cartoon feet, it would seem that was meant to say “movies.” Oops!

I’ve got to wonder about the data a bit for the total winnings and what they could buy. If $1,182,000 could buy 9 houses in the United States, that would make each house only $131,333 and change. Maybe in the middle of nowhere houses only cost that much, but in a lot of metropolitan areas, even condos cost much more than this.

Overall I’d give the infographic a C-. Some more data viz and a few more statistics would be nice, but the design is pretty cute and there aren’t many typos or other technical errors. When more data visualization is employed, this will be a pretty engaging example of an infographic.

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This infographic comes to us from FruitMachine.me.uk and covers gambling’s biggest losers. Upon submitting this infographic, the folks at Fruit Machine had the following to say:

If you’ve ever felt crushed at losing a few dollars at the race track or blowing ten dollars on a lottery ticket then spare a thought for those gamblers who took it to the max! The Biggest Losers infographic, shows the extreme losers in gambling, these people really didn’t know when to stop.

From the $127 million lost by Terrance Watanabe to the $14 million lost by Australian business Kerry Packer it’s all here, read them and weep. Some gamblers take losing well, others try to sue the casinos and one gambler bounces $16 million worth of checks. Plus read about the Jockey who nearly bankrupted every bookmaker in the United Kingdom.

The infographic provides a cautionary tale for those with wealthy people and no impulse control.

All in all, there are some pros and cons to this infographic. Let’s start with the pros: I like how they use the Biggest Loser TV show font for the title. That’s a pretty fun addition. I love the background and the use of different sized poker chips to call out different amounts of losses.

Now for the cons: Unfortunately, this infographic falls under the same problems of other infographics that I’ve seen submitted to this site. The problem is simple: there’s WAY TOO MUCH TEXT. An infographic is supposed to be a “graphical display of information.” This is not. This is a lot of text with pretty pictures next to it. There’s other things online that are similar: articles. This infographic should have a lot less text. Important numbers should be called out by being larger, a different font, or a different color. Pictures of the losers should be included on the infographic. There should be graphs to chart all of the biggest wins and losses. Instead, this is mainly an article. Every time you create an infographic ask yourself one simple question: Can this be read just like an article? If the answer is “yes” then you have more work to do.