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This infographic comes to us from the folks at EtonCorp, who provided this description:

“Mother Nature rules the world. Occasionally, she decides to remind us of that, and usually not too subtly. Natural disasters affect many people across the US (and the world) each year. However, with the ever-growing and changing world of social media, we can try to reduce the negative affects those disasters have on us.”

The chart showing which sectors of the United States government use varying forms of social media is very well done and serves its purpose of providing a snapshot comparison quite well. The design of the infographic is also very nice–it hearkens to social media with the icon-like depictions of each natural disaster and the items in the emergency preparedness kit. I love the way the title is designed–completely clever, appropriate for the subject, and with a great attention to detail.

However, this graphic is mostly text. Since it’s trying to provide tips more than it is displaying facts and statistics, this makes sense, but a good infographic keeps the text to a minimum. The very first chart, Types of Natural Disasters, could’ve benefited from an accompanying bar graph comparing the number of fatalities. Same thing for the number of Tweets and Facebook page “likes” for the earthquake and Irene. With a few more disasters for comparison, those numbers could’ve been put to great data viz use. Visuals wherever possible!

Overall I’ll give this infographic a C. It’s got a start on data viz, and the design is great, but there’s still an awful lot of text and tips in proportion to the amount of stats made into visualization.

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This infographic comes to us from Bachus & Schanker personal injury law firm.

The crawfish dancing up the side of this IG are pretty visually enticing. I definitely craned my neck to one side to find out what it was representing, and was happy to see it’s a good example of data visualization. Four rows of smaller crawfish might’ve been better, but design-wise it could’ve definitely gotten cluttered. The Louisiana-shaped statistic about flood insurance is also an effective example of visualizing data, except that the National Flood Insurance Payments section is also state-shaped. For variety’s sake, maybe the 71% statistic should be in some other shape.

The blue color scheme makes plenty of sense for this infographic, and it looks pretty interesting in all of its varying shades. However, it makes the beige seashell section stand out in an awkward, off-balance way. This is the weakest section of the infographic because it is so text-heavy. Infographics are really about visuals, and the “Did You Know” and “If Flooding Occurs” sections have great potential. “12 inches of water floats many vehicles” could be interesting, as could “Flash floods often bring walls of water 10 to 20 feet high.” “Listen to the radio or television”: picture of a radio/television. “Stay away from downed power lines”: a little stick figure backing away from a downed power line? Infographics are intended to tell a story, and should still show all relevant data when text is removed. This IG stands that test pretty well until the seashell section. The data that is visualized there is almost too small to stand out; it looks a little squished.

On the grammar and spelling side of things, this infographic is pretty good. The crawfish sentence could use some punctuation, though, and Hurricane Ike is spelled Hurrican Ike. Still, it fares better in this department than others we’ve seen.

Overall, I’d give this infographic a C. More and different data visualization is needed, and a less severe division of data would help the overall appearance.