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A picture or a visual is worth a thousand words
The value depends on the selection, design and placement of a visual in a document or presentation
Visuals include tables, graphs and charts
They can be used to reduce the cognitive work load for the reader
through the simplification of complex data
Another type of visual is called an infographic
Infographics include signs, graphics and maps
An infographic is a visual that helps you more easily understand
find, or do something
it's self explanatory and universally understandable
The following information visualizations
are done by students from the Applied Master's Program
at the UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics
They chose visuals to illustrate relationships comparing five different electronic records
For attributes for market share, cost, length of contract, certification to meet meaningful use
target market, usability, and customer service support
For example, matched pie charts, bar graphs, tables, and 3D graphs
Another representation uses traditional tables with rows and columns
Additionally they used work clouds as another representation based on text
The tags are often hyper-linked to websites
Infographics are a form of concentrated nutrition for the data consumer
Next time, when you are planning to share specific ideas or data
consider using infographics