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This infographic was submitted to us by SimpliSafe, who also provided a brief description:

What’s the best way to steal a billion dollars? These seven epic heists show there’s a million ways to steal, but only a few ways to get away with it…

This infographic makes great use of illustrations, fun colors, data visualization, and clean organization. The typography in the header is quite engaging, so it definitely makes the viewer want to continue on to the rest of the content.

The text does appear a bit heavy at times, though it makes sense to include for the purpose of storytelling. Otherwise, the IG would need to be more of a comic panel. However, it could be broken up a bit more to avoid paragraph chunks. Even one sentence can be 5, 6, 7 lines long when formatted for an infographic.

The content is engaging and each section is fairly brief, so it’s fairly quick to move through. The engaging and lively design works in tandem with the content to create a great infographic overall!

My chief critique of the infographic is that it lacks sources. A source list allows the viewer to verify information included in the infographic, as well as providing suggestions for resources to check out more information. Sure, a Google search could accomplish this, but the research portion of an infographic can take hours — and in a research paper, one always cites their sources. Consider including footnotes or a unified source list at the bottom of your infographic to increase credibility.

There are also a few cases where the data viz isn’t truly data viz – for example, in the 1950 Great Brinks Robbery, the dollar bill to represent $58,000, if taken to scale, would mean that the total amount of the heist was just $406,000, instead of the $2.7 million. You’d actually need over 46.5 of those dollar bills for it to accurately show just how little was really recovered!

In all I’d rate this infographic an B+ — extremely visually engaging, but could disperse the text just a touch more and focus on accuracy in data visualization for bigger impact.

This infographic was submitted to us by HomeSecuritySystem.com

I really like the aesthetic of this graphic. Each section is cleverly laid out, it uses a color palette that’s easy on the eyes and it’s easy to navigate. It’s a bit text-heavy but doesn’t go overboard.

We don’t have anything visualized here, though, so I can’t really call this an infographic per se. There are numerous values that could have been visualized–the value of the heists, 10 layers of security, 100 million lock combos, 14 bound members of staff, $650 million out of $920 million recovered, etc. But the viewer has to read all of these numbers instead of getting a visual representation of them through charts, graphs, icons etc. It would be faster to get through the graphic and would also cut down on text if the designer had chosen to visualize these numbers.

I did also want to point out a quick grammatical thing–the sentence “$650 million was later found hidden in walls in Saddam Hussein’s palace by US troops” separates the verb phrase so extremely that it isn’t clear whether the money was found by US troops or hidden by US troops, or even that the palace was near US troops. I was amazed to read that US troops had stolen money and hidden it in Saddam’s palace until I figured out what the sentence was supposed to say!

Overall I’d give this graphic a B, though as an infographic it’d be more of a C or C- given its lack of visualized data.