{"id":7554,"date":"2018-03-13T16:22:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T19:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/?p=7554"},"modified":"2022-10-18T08:40:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T11:40:44","slug":"how-to-make-an-infographic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/how-to-make-an-infographic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make an infographic #1 &#8211; Communication in science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Discover how to make an infographic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Communication is an important part of scientific life. And it\u2019s not only text but also visual! Do you know how to make an infographic for your research paper?&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to research and getting solid data, a researcher needs to know how to present their work and communicate well. Finally,<\/span> it is time for <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">scientists to stop talking only with their pairs. &nbsp;Discover how to make an infographic and reach waaaaaay more people out of your bubble.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This post is the first of the <em>How to Make an Infographic<\/em> series, with tips and practical examples. This series is a guide made by Mind the Graph designers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to learn more about how to make an infographic this series is for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>The power of disinformation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Failed scientific communication creates a gap between science and society. This issue increase pseudoscience, like<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/vaccine-misinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the vaccine controversy<\/a>, reduce the funding for scientific research and interest in science by the people in general.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/templates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/templates noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/preview-381274-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/preview-381274-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/preview-381274-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/preview-381274-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/preview-381274-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/preview-381274-2048x1536.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Click on the image to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/templates\/\">Mind the Graph Templates<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2><b>Scientific infographics improving communication in science<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Create graphical abstracts, infographics and awesome presentations is a good strategy as it helps you catch up the audience&#8217;s attention and reach more people.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an infographic, you should present all the relevant information of your work in a clear, visually enjoyable way, so that the reader will be able to understand it by himself.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<center>\n<p><\/p><\/center>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/much-fail-3o7bucZfOGGG4gWlPy\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.giphy.com\/media\/3o7bucZfOGGG4gWlPy\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"Fail Dan James GIF by Much - Find &amp; Share on GIPHY\" width=\"480\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>If you aren\u2019t convinced yet, there are more reasons to use infographics in science:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Infographics show statistic data in a more intuitive and easy-to-use way, with numbers and text of different sizes, depending on their importance and priority, and images and symbols that help your reader. The arrangement of the elements in a infographic helps a dynamic reading and with a quick glance you can understand the main information.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An infographic has a huge potential to become popular and shared. The reason is because it is visually appealing and easy to share in social media, emails and more.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/templates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/templates\/ noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/preview-381271-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/preview-381271-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/preview-381271-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/preview-381271-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/preview-381271-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/preview-381271-2048x1536.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Click on the image to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/templates\/\">Mind the Graph Templates<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Economist magazine published in June 2016 that articles with diagrams and graphs tend to be much more cited (about 60% are cited). And more, articles with diagrams reach up to 120%:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-7580 size-full\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"395\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/grafico-01.png\" alt=\"grafico-01\" class=\"wp-image-7580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/grafico-01.png 395w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/grafico-01-300x238.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><figcaption>Articles with graphs and diagrams are more citated<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanchis-Segura and Spanagel published an<a href=\"http:\/\/www.public.coe.edu\/~mbaker\/baker\/AEP\/My%20Research\/Behavioural%20assessment%20of%20drug%20reinforcement.pdf\"> article <\/a>in 2006 with comics illustrations to present the experiments done with mice in the laboratory. This article had more than 160 citations, while their other articles were published in the same year but without this visual resource did not exceed 50 citations.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.public.coe.edu\/~mbaker\/baker\/AEP\/My%20Research\/Behavioural%20assessment%20of%20drug%20reinforcement.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"544\" height=\"649\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/capture.png\" alt=\"Capture\" class=\"wp-image-7581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/capture.png 544w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/capture-251x300.png 251w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Sanchis-Segura and Spanagel 2006: An awesome article with several illustrations<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But well, I know, we are scientists and in general, we do not study how to improve our communication and design skills.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of all, our goal is to improve scientific communication. Therefore, Mind the Graph designers created awesome content to help not-designers-scientists. They&#8217;ll show how to make an infographic to present&nbsp;your research and stop communicating only with your pairs. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or you can also start your infographic right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\">Click here to start!<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See the rest of our posts on&nbsp;<em>How to make an infographic<\/em> below. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Plus, Mind the Graph Subscribers receive by email extra material, designed exclusively by the Mind the Graph design team. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to make an infographic Serie:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/how-to-make-an-infographic-2\/#.WuBs2dPwZQI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#1 Post &#8211; Communication in science<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/how-to-make-an-infographic-3\/#.WuBscNPwZQI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#2 Post &#8211; Make your data Awesome<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/how-to-make-an-infographic-4\/#.YVMp2bhKhPY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#3 Post &#8211;&nbsp;The right kind of chart<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/how-to-make-an-infographic-4-2\/#.YVMp87hKhPY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#4 Post &#8211; Let&#8217;s talk about colors!<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/how-to-make-an-infographic-5\/#.YVMqJbhKhPY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#5 Post &#8211; Less is more: minimalist infographic design<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/how-to-make-an-infographic-6\/#.YVMdjbhKhPZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#6 Post &#8211; Mistakes to avoid in science communication<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/how-to-make-an-infographic-7\/#.YVMdkLhKhPZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;#7 Post &#8211; A shortcut summary to GET IT DONE<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Receive free our ebook<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.mindthegraph.com\/learn-how-to-make-science-infographics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">learn how to make science infographics and improve your presentations<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.mindthegraph.com\/learn-how-to-make-science-infographics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"249\" height=\"72\" src=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1capture.png\" alt=\"1Capture\" class=\"wp-image-7590\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover how to make an infographic Communication is an important part of scientific life. 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