Most people around the world are now familiar with the shopping phenomenon that is Black Friday. Many of us, in the United States especially, wake up bright and early (or don’t sleep) to attend sales that start at 6, 5, even 4am on the Friday after Thanksgiving. But do you really know what Black Friday …
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As we mentioned in Part 1 of our interview with Max Galka, data visualization has become one of the biggest trends of 2016. Not only do we have more access to more information than ever before, but we are able to collect that information (data) in all new ways. But of course, we don’t just …
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We recently spoke to Max Galka, an entrepreneur and blogger, whose main focus is on the world of data. Galka is known across the Interwebs as a data visualization genius as well as a data pioneer, working on projects that visualize information in truly colorful ways. His latest project, Blueshift, focuses on creating interactive, data-driven …
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“Infopreneurs” are a new class of entrepreneurs providing their knowledge and expertise through e-books, email series, and e-courses. As anyone who has ever designed, created, and launched an e-course will tell you, half the battle is coming up with great content that people just can’t resist (and will pay for). The other half of the …
Today, we had a great discussion with Jessica Hagy, master illustrator over at ThisIsIndexed.com and author of amazing books like The Art of War Visualized and How to Be Interesting. Jessica was nice enough to talk to us about her creative process, and about how she breaks down a seemingly complex idea into a simple, …
Sonia Guilana has beena high school English and German teacher since 1996, and has been an IT trainer for the Department of Education in Catalonia, Spain since 2005. She also just happens to be one of Easel.ly’s most engaged users, and it’s been a pleasure interacting with her on Twitter. We love the tagline on …
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School is out for the summer (in the United States at least), but that doesn’t mean teachers aren’t already gearing up for the next session. If you’re a teacher and you find yourself already bogged down in lesson plans and deciding how best to organize your classroom, here are a few ways that infographics can …
It’s Teacher Appreciation Day, which is part of the longer Teacher Appreciation Week in the United States. Today is the day to let your teachers, your children’s teachers, and your college professors know how awesome they are (or were). They don’t hear it often, so make sure you let them know.
Are you using infographics to explain or teach the election? If not, you should be. The election is a treasure trove for infographics and data representation. There are so many things to analyze during election season–candidates, issues, numbers, polls, statistics–this is the infographic lover’s jackpot. Without visuals, we surely would drown. The 2016 election is …
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If you’re the English teacher or drama coach, you’re probably pretty up on your Hamlet and MacBeth. The rest of us–not so much. These works can be pretty daunting for students and mere mortals alike. Even with Sparknotes, Thugnotes, and reading Amazon reviews, the classics are tough to understand. They’re classics for a reason. Students …
Family tree infographic My students are reading “One hundred years of solitude” with another teacher, and they told me how difficult they find to read a book with so many characters, many of them sharing the same names. I remember that when I was in high school and we read the same book, I made …
This is a new game I designed for Brain Awareness Week. The player must draw a line from the Roman numerals of the cranial nerves to the place where they belong in the drawing, and then, draw a line from the origin of the cranial nerve to one of two options: motor or sensorial. The …
