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I really like the sliding feature on the debts for each country. It’s pretty interesting to see debts grow (and in some cases shrink, then grow again!) over time.

I also like the varying sizes of arrows showing relation to debt. Details like that are easy ways to include data viz without reverting to a standard bar chart or line graph. There’s plenty of data viz and iconography throughout, making it easy to get the information you came for without wading through excess text. The escalation graph gets a bit wordy in its descriptions, but that’s really the only instance–and some text will always be necessary for certain bits of information.

There are a few typos (“instalment,” unnecessary capitalization of “banks,” no period at the end of the May 2011 section, and more). Frankly, nearly every infographic has a typo or two, but it’s still good to be on the lookout for it!

I don’t have too much else to say on the negative side. It’s pretty cleanly laid out, easy to interpret and very informative. It’d be fun to see more of the tricks like the sliding graph, since some of the examples of data viz are less visually interesting than others.

Overall I’d give this infographic a B. It does its job quite well, but just needs some further editing to push it up to top-notch!

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This is a fun infographic brought to us by MoneyDebtAndCredit.com that showcases the problems behind debt in the UK. Upon submitting this infographic, the folks at MoneyDebtAndCredit.com had the following to say:

We have published some statistics with help from Credit Action using an infographic, which highlights the true story of debt in the UK. This graphically highlights the average UK household debt to bankruptcy and personal debt figures.

Overall, the design of this infographic is very good. There’s a lot of charts and graphs that display the data very visually, the background has a subtle texture to it, the use of shadows isn’t overdone, and the color scheme is great. There isn’t much I’d suggest to improve this infographic. My one pet peeve (which is really just a personal preference) is that the use of the pound sign in the title was a little over used. It would have worked fine just once, but three times is a bit redundant. Beyond pet peeves, there’s just one major issue that should be fixed immediately: no sources. Without sources on this infographic, how can I trust the data?