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I like the unique approach to background imagery on this infographic. It’s very dark and dynamic, incorporating burning paper, bright bricks and then falling down into blackness. It could be distracting, but the designer knows to make it less of a feature as the infographic progresses, so that the text and numbers can be the focus.

There’s a lot of good information here, and although it teeters on the edge of too much text, I think it manages to stay on the concise side. I’m not enamored with the traditional typeface choice, though: there are just too many fonts to choose from to play it so safe.

There are also some typos/inconsistencies that could use addressing. For example, “$2.7 Trillion” didn’t need to be capitalized, since it was part of a sentence. It’s immediately followed by, “That nearly $8,650″ — the second typo in a row, in the first factoid. That may stop some viewers from continuing on.

This infographic is also on the light side for data viz. The image of Texas with “x2″ on it sort of conveys the idea… but an image of Texas with a double-sized image of Texas underneath or next to it would be even better! The percentage of our population comprised of older Americans could have also been visualized, and the ratio of infant deaths chart could contain an actual numbered scale.

The more visualization of numbers, the better: that minimizes the amount of reading a viewer has to do to get the information.

In all I’d give this a B-. It’s got some qualities of an infographic, but could use some polish, too.

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This infographic was submitted to us by Nursing License Map.

This is a great guide for picking a career in nursing. It covers the wide range of different options available to those interested in pursuing health care–someone considering the field for the first time might not know that there are so many different types of nursing degrees and nurse positions! The text is clear, the color palette is consistent and not distracting, and the coverage of each potential path is comprehensive.

Unfortunately, this isn’t something we’d call an infographic, for the primary reason that there is no data visualization here. What is good is that visualizable data has been included: all of the text in red could be turned into a chart or graph showing the data instead of writing about it.

This would give the guide a bit more visual intrigue and lighten it up a bit, too. Being inundated with large amounts of text is not much different from reading a list or manual–infographics make the data fun to read.

A few examples of how the text might be visualized:

The statistic about 78% of NCLEX-RN test-takers passing could be represented by using a thermometer, mock-up medical chart on a clip board, pencil or other related instrument and showing that 78% as a portion out of 100.

Since there are 2.6 million RNs in the United States, and it’s said that that is the largest population of any health care occupation, it could be fun to see how many dentists, medical doctors, surgeons, etc. there are in comparison. These numbers could together be represented on a line chart as a heart monitor, or perhaps with different colored scrubs representing each occupation (either as a bar chart or having a portion of each of them shaded according to population).

As a guide I’d give this an A, as it’s very informative, but it will benefit from the addition of data viz before I could grade it as an infographic.

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This infographic comes to us from Appature, a Seattle based company that provides a cloud based healthcare marketing tool. Upon submission of this infographic, the folks at Appature had the following to say:

Appature Inc, a Seattle-based software company that makes marketing tools for the healthcare industry, just launched its first infographic about Prescriptions Most Marketed to Doctors in the healthcare industry! Our infographic breaks down the ins and outs of which prescriptions are most marketed to doctors, to which prescriptions have the greatest sales ($5.3 Billion!) and even patient sentiments regarding a doctor’s prescribing habits. By reading this infographic, we hope that readers will get a little peek inside the intricate inner-workings of the infamous pharmaceutical industry! As TIME magazine highlights, “…the pharmaceutical industry is – and has been for years – the most profitable of all businesses in the U .S.”

I can’t really offer up critiques for this infographic because that would be a conflict of interest, as this infographic was designed by our team of designers here at Killer Infographics. So instead I ask that you critique us please. Comment below and let us know what you think.