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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.

Via:Master Degree Online.com

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Via:Master Degree Online.com

Master-Degree-Online.com recently produced 3 infographics, which were submitted to our site. Out of these 3, my favorite is “Hello Nurse” which has a lot of great data visualization, though I’m not a huge fan of the color scheme. Of all the oBizMedia infographics I’ve seen, they all tend to stick to black as their primary color, which isn’t too appealing or visually catching. The infographic space is starting to get pretty competitive for some niches that are using infographics to build traffic, links, and better connect with their audience. Because of this, a certain level of eye candy is needed to take infographics to the next level. The Hello Nurse infographic could be improved with some additional colors and a border around the infographic so that, when put against a white background, the infographic is clearly defined. Other than that though, I love this infographic!

My next favorite is “A Teacher’s Worth Around the World.” Again, it appears that black is the primary color, but at least there are some other colors to help make the graphs pop. I feel like the top 1/4 could be cut in half so that a viewer can get into the infographic faster. The first bar chart is also far larger than it needs to be. That said, I absolutely love the middle chart! It’s a very creative way to showcase the data and visually stimulating. I wish the class sizes section were easier to view, because right now I have to keep scrolling from the picture of students down to the graph underneath. Placing these two items side by side would help to make this section easier to read and is possible if the graph were showcased differently (especially with so many other bar charts already being used in the infographic). There’s a lot of potential with this infographic, and if I could give it a score it would get a B+.

Finally, the librarian infographic is OK. I love the illustrations and the eye candy, but it isn’t actually an infographic because there is no data visualization. Instead this is more like a reading assignment (which librarians will probably love).

Those are my thoughts, what are yours?