Infographic: Amazing facts about the brain
Infographic
Amazing facts about the brain
🧠Did you know that our brain makes up 2% of our body weight, but consumes as much as 20% of our energy? Did you know that we have a second brain, located in our gut?
Our information designer Sofia is very passionate about our brain and how it works. She made this insightful brain infographic, giving you an overview of eight amazing facts about the brain!
If you’re looking for your own infographic to share a fascinating story with your audience, we’re here to help! Find out what we can do for you.
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Graphical abstracts are becoming more and more important. Journal publishers such as Elsevier encourage you to create a concise visual summary of the main findings of your research. But where to start? What steps should you follow to create the perfect graphical abstract for your article? What tools can you use?
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Behind the maps
In the 30-day Map Challenge, you are challenged to design a new map every day around a certain topic. I participated in November 2020, and wrote this post to share my thought processes, data sources, tools and results!
20 February 2021
Data visualization resources: all the links you’ll ever need!
You want to start creating clear and attractive data visuals, but don't know where to start? No worries, here's a complete overview of tools, resources and inspiration you can use as a starting point for your designs.
1 October 2020
Storytelling with Data: Dataviz book review
The Storytelling with Data book has been on my wishlist as long as I can remember, because so many people recommend it as one of the must read dataviz books. So let's see what the fuzz is all about - here's my review!
22 June 2020
Uncommon chart types: Slopegraphs
Slopegraphs appear in 'serious' newspapers, but they are very easy to create yourself. Use them if you want to compare how values have changed between two different points in time!
7 June 2020
Data visualization in a time of pandemic – #6: Viral scrollytelling
In this final chapter, we’ll dive deeper into some of the insightful stories which have been published about the novel coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than looking at single charts, we’ll highlight some long-form stories about the origin of the virus, how it works, and how it spread.
3 June 2020
We are really into visual communication!
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