The Complete Editor, 2nd Edition

chapter

8

Infographics

 

 

 

• The Graphics Revolution

• Defining Graphics Journalism

• Type-Based Graphics

• Chart-Based Graphics

• Illustration-Based Graphics

• Developing Infographics

• Conclusion

• Exercises

 

The world waited for five weeks in November and December 2000 to know the outcome of the presidential election in the United States. The election had been terribly close. The margin of victory in some states, such as New Mexico and Oregon, had been only a few hundred votes.

But the final decision on the election centered on Florida. Several counties in southern Florida had run into difficulties in counting their votes because of one thing: the design of the ballot.

Palm Beach County, along with a few others, used something called the ...