23 Mobile Things #15: Infographics

I decided to see what Infographics Hub could do. Now I'm used to infographics accompanying text articles. Sometimes there isn't much more to the article than Hey, look at this cool infographic of this interesting phenomenon, but usually there's something. It had never occurred to me that you could gather infographics, separate them from their parent articles (if any), and read them one after another like articles in a magazine, but that's exactly what Infographics Hub does. Now there are an awful lot of infographics out there, but Infographics Hub allows you to filter them by category, which makes the flood more manageable. Choose your favorite topics, sit back, and enjoy the data presentation.

As it turns out, I like reading an infographic every now and then. Reading one after another is overwhelming, even in just one subject area. Approach them with caution if you plan to use them in a professional project, because the sources are listed inconsistently. Some infographics list their sources clearly at the bottom, which is good, but some had no sources listed whatsoever. I see the infographics are introduced with a bit of text, but I couldn't tell if that was from the parent article or something Infographics Hub added. For one (apparently sourceless) infographic, the accompanying blurb states, "They wanted to share the top advantages of asynchronous eLearning so below is their infographic that shows those advantages." Nothing says who "they" are, and unfortunately the ad at the bottom of the app cut off the last line of the infographic, so I hope there wasn't a grand conclusion down there.

If you want to see a lot of infographics and get ideas of what to include in your own, this would be a fine app. If you want to use the infographics themselves, just be alert to which ones provide sources and which do not. And if you want to make your own, you'll need a different app altogether. But as a free source of infographics, Infographics Hub does well enough.