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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.

Lady Gaga: The Fame Monster

Okay, admittedly Lady Gaga is considered by some to be at least as bad as Christmas music, if not worse. “Poker Face” is just as likely to get stuck in your head as “Little Drummer Boy.” (Pa-rum-pa-pum-p-p-p-poker face.) But it’s much more danceable, anyway. And it hasn’t been stuck in your head for your entire life, whereas most holiday music is injected into your brain at birth. So give Gaga a chance this year. That way, if you must go shopping, you can just pop in your headphones and shop to the beat of a different drummer.

The Fragmented World of Digital Music

Speaking of Gaga, this IG tells us she’s got the second digitally-best-selling song of 2010 with “Bad Romance” and the fourth best-selling with “Telephone.” With the CD going the way of the dodo, or the cassette tape, digital music is our new medium. Purchase songs individually, or buy whole albums–the only kind of storage space you need is a drive, not a rack of albums. (And since gift cards are so hot these days, you can knock out a great gift for almost anyone on your list by purchasing a gift card or subscription for a digital music service!)

Doctor Who By the Numbers

What better way to say “Happy Holidays” than with the gift of television! (It’s also a good way to say “I’m in denial about the holidays,” as long as you’re watching on DVD, where there are no commercials.) Seasons or entire series of TV shows make great gifts, and they practically wrap themselves. Whichever Dr. Who you consider to be the real one, the show has an undeniable following. You can spend days watching Dr. Who instead of shopping, too! Or, even better, while shopping online.

Call of Duty Franchise

If you’d still like to forget that the holidays are upon us for as long as you can, Call of Duty is a great way to sequester yourself away from the mall rush! That is, if you haven’t foolishly put CoD Modern Warfare 3 on your gift list. Smart gamers pre-ordered and picked up on release day so that they could postpone the holiday craze. Those who’ve asked for it as a gift are crazed for a different reason. But if you’ve already made this n00b mistake, you could always return to an earlier game from the franchise. It’s not like they weren’t successful games or anything. Just look at how many military vehicles you could buy for the price of the franchise!

Kardashian Wedding vs. Average Wedding

Okay, since the time this infographic was created, this relationship has entered the annals of Stupid Celebrity Wedding History. But many of us latch on to celebrities’ lives as an escape from our own, so maybe you follow their weddings with fervor. Even though she’s returning to Ms. from Mrs., we can still marvel at just how extravagant this wedding was–and just how short of a marriage all that spending bought her!

There you have it–distractions from/accompaniments to the holiday shopping rush. Happy pre-holidays!

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The design on this is awesome. When I reached the bottom I kept trying to scroll further–I wanted to see how many layers of nighttime graveyard I could get through! It’s very visually engaging. I love the giant blue eyes by the YouTube views section. It flows well, the dimensions are good, and the text is minimal, appropriately placed, and easy to spot.

The only data visualizations on here are the number of times each single went platinum and the number of YouTube video views (although it took some scrutinizing for me to realize that there was a numerical basis for the line graph in that section–it would have been helpful if they were organized by least-to-most views). The number of weeks spent on the charts are represented only by the number. The number of Twitter followers could have been visualized by comparing how many followers @LadyGaga has compared to some other celebs. Speaking of the Twitter mention, the last “a” in her Twitter name seems to be bigger than all the other letters…

This spooky IG could benefit from more consideration put into what sort of data could be represented visually. Graphs and charts could have been used in several places that they weren’t, which would’ve been prime opportunity for even more unique content. Maybe the way the YouTube line graph is employed could be the groundwork for more data viz. More comparison to other top artists, songs and videos would support this, too.

Overall I’d give this infographic a C. It’s original and it’s on the right track, but it needs the extra push to take the visuals from just symbolism to actual data viz.

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This infographic comes to us from AudioAffair.co.uk and details a brief history of audio from the inception of recorded audio in 1877 all the way to the current state of digital music today. Upon submission, AudioAffair had the following to say about this infographic:

With the mordern lifestyle of music, not everyone knows the true history of how every major audio equipment came about throughout the past couple of centuries. This infographic display a breif timeline of some events occured which are worth a mention, such as the invention of the first ever audio device, to the birth of MP3.

And as an addition a few small facts and statistics are displayed at the bottom too, to show the current types of favourite music, how music affects our lives and the safe listening time on an iPod.

Overall, the infographic is OK, but the best part is the bottom, which displays some facts and figures about music. The top half of the infographic, on the other hand, has so much text that I don’t want to read it. Infographics are a great way to display a history of something, but this reads more like a very simplified list than an actual graphical representation. This infographic would be much better if they could take the style and imagery used at the bottom and find ways to do the same in the top half.