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This infographic was submitted to us by Infobia. It’s a fascinating look at how the media reports on crimes differently than the police do. It’s interesting that the media in some cities doesn’t report at all on certain crimes, and that sometimes they report on things that don’t seem to happy in the city! Atlanta police report 0% rapes according to the graphic, but the media reports 27.3% of the time.

There’s a lot of data viz in here–although I’d like to see the designer work with some more unique expressions of data viz than just the bar graphs and scale used in the top section. It’d also be great to see that final banner as a visualization–just 0.5% of us will ever be victims of violent crime? That’s worthy of some data viz to really show just how unlikely it is.

Overall this graphic has clean design, clear visualizations and sticks to the point. It reveals the large discrepancies between crime rates and reporting rates in some major cities, avoiding too much text and staying organized. The color palette keeps a serious feel without getting monotone or over-the-top, and the typography works well together, not distracting the viewer. The illustrations are pretty cute, too! I’d rate this infographic an A–just a bit more data viz experimentation could make it outstanding.

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There is a very simple and clean design here, which makes the data stand out without being too confusing. The color scheme is consistent, the data is extremely thorough and the topic is interesting.

The data viz is a bit drab, however, where it exists. In many places it isn’t utilized where it could’ve been. The first section is just calling out for it–circles containing written percentages could so easily be converted into pie charts which, while not very exciting, are better than just writing data. For some reason, the 1% statistic is visualized, but none of the others. It gets a little more creative in sections like “Most Pirated Items on the Web” by using icons, but that’s still not data viz.

I could also use some descriptions on the percentages. China is the “top for online piracy” with 91%… of what? 91% of Chinese people have downloaded illegally? China accounts for 91% of all online piracy? It seems that some places are lacking text while others could remove it effectively.

There’s also some unexplained capitalization throughout. Words like “software” or “online piracy” wouldn’t typically be capitalized mid-sentence. Grammar issues like “42 percent of Softwares running in World are illegally downloaded” are also present.

Overall I’d give this infographic a C. It’s got data viz, but not enough of it, and there are enough technical problems that it looks a little hastily done. A more unique design would also serve this topic well.