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6 Mistakes That Will Ruin Your Infographic

Infographics can make any complex information understandable - this is approximately the view of many of its customers and creators. But confused or incorrectly composed infographics in interactive dashboard service  only interfere with the perception of the material and scare readers away - in this case, you get anti-advertising for your own money. Here are examples of mistakes that infographic authors make while providing interactive dashboard service .   A card that needs 3 more cards to read      To  understand something from this infographic, you first need to look at 3 maps in the left corner and remember what three shades indicate the region of interest to you. And then lay these colors on top of each other. True, the scheme does not explain all the combinations of colors, so you have to dilute the colors in a jar to find out what the mixture of pink and blue looks like. Then you remember the new color and look for it on the big map. And th...

The Heat Map that reveals how Google watches you: it knows where you have been every day

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Using Google's terrifying location history data visualization, able to tell you exactly where you've been every day, a developer in the US creates a tool to visualize your movements on a terrifying heat map.  Google maps watches over you. With your permission, those of Mountain View use your smartphone to control each and every one of your steps. For what? Well, initially to introduce you to you later in a terrifying location history. You can check it here and, if you haven't seen it until now, you're going to be scared: Google knows exactly where you've been. Now, an American developer has created a tool to visualize all that data in a different way.  Specifically, with a heat map that would replace the lines of your routes that Google puts on the map.The platform uses the data from your history, but rest assured, your locations do not leave your computer, which is where the heat map is actually created. To create your own heat map with this...