I work for The City and thought you guys would enjoy this year-end infographic

[Dylburtjones]

With 2013 coming to a close, we took a unique infographic look at our city's accomplishments over the past year. Here's to an even better 2014 Calgary!

http://calgary.ca/yyc2013

Any thoughts? What were your personal highlights of 2013?

[Kavvy]

Originally Posted by Dylburtjones

With 2013 coming to a close, we took a unique infographic look at our city's accomplishments over the past year. Here's to an even better 2014 Calgary!

http://calgary.ca/yyc2013

Any thoughts? What were your personal highlights of 2013?

Thank you for this, looks great. I just put the full image below:

Spoiler!

[pylon]

Infographics.

"Making an itemized list more complicated and confusing since 2008."

Seriously though, good job.

edit: I bet DylburtJones is mayor Nenshi.

[kermitology]

That infographic was done by the same guy who did the design rebrand for the Flames, and the Stampeders.

http://www.design.ca/

Also, my personal favourite person on Twitter and Vine https://twitter.com/iregier

[GGG]

Cool Graphic.

But why does the city run a sailing program? Seems a little weird for landlocked Alberta and is even richer persons sport than golf.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by pylon

Infographics.
"Making an itemized list more complicated and confusing since 2008."

Infographics and data-visualization are a big part of what I do (shameless plug: one of the charts I did a few weeks ago was quoted by Bill Gates as his favorite of 2013), and I teach a class at ACAD in it as well, so I like to think I know what I'm talking about. So when I hear people say things like this, I....tend to agree! Well, mostly.

I think sometimes us designers forget that the main goal of an infographic is to communicate information. However information on it's own, especially when it deals with a lot of numbers and datasets, can be pretty stale and intimidating (especially when you get it in an Excel chart). The truth is that people wouldn't read a lot of this stuff if it wasn't interesting to look at. Obviously the goal is to make something engaging AND be easier to understand, but sometimes us designers go too far in the visual direction and just complicate the issue.

Btw...here's an infographic fun fact (hey, it's fun to me)...one of the pioneers of graphic charts was Florence Nightingale! During her time as a field-nurse in the Crimean War, she developed charts and stats to show to her superiors about how their soldiers were dying not because of wounds, but because of poor medical and hygene practices in the field.

Here's the chart. You can see here the difference between preventable deaths (blue) and deaths from wounds (red) over the months of the war.

Spoiler!

This little chart did a lot for changing field practices during war, and saved a lot of lives as a result. Not bad for a little infographic!

[Joborule]

I know who you are Dylburtjones!

Saw that graphic earlier last month. Well done.

[Youzit]

Love the graphic - it was a big year for the city! Didn't realize that we were starting food and yard waste recycling. It would be great to have pickups for those in the city...