...worthy of being using as a business communication tool (Smiciklas 2012). 4 Techniques using in company’s annual report The Takeda Company used many visualization techniques in their annual report, to make their annual report clearer and easier to be accepted by audiences. • The Takeda Company used a lot of photos, such as their products, research and development personnel, to get audiences’ attention • Some cartoons are used in their annual report, showing how their medicine curing people’s disease 5 Conclusion A lot of visualization techniques are used in Takeda Company’s annual report, such as photographs and cartoons. These two techniques play a important part in it 6 References. Smiciklas, M.2012 ‘The Power of Infographics: Using Pictures to Communicate and Connect with...
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...Source review In the article ‘Visual appeal’, Coomber (2008) discusses the superiority of the infographics techniques in dealing with the enterprises’ daily affairs. This article is relevant to the report on the advantages and the applications of the infographics. While the relevance is limited to focusing on introducing the benefits of the infographics without presenting any risk. In addition, the article does not provide ample authoritative argument as solid evidence to support author’s viewpoint. Therefore, it is not an objective source and can be used as secondary text. The article is relevant to the assessment task, which compares the infographics with the word in managing reports. Coomber (2008) outlines several methods to make the message matter, including tries creating a visual theme and uses visual or infographics techniques rather than uses words to prove organize and various information. Coomber(2008) also argues that the infographics can promote the corporation to understand relevant information quickly and easily. The author’s argument is largely focus on the benefits associated with the infographics techniques, which enhances the corporate reporting. Therefore, the article is limited to explaining the reasons why the infographics are so useful to the business and lacks of sufficient information in terms of how evaluate the infographics techniques. The source is not objective since the argument is largely based on author’s personal experience with scant...
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...company to show you and evaluate how well infographics used in its official website. This ppt includes three sections,the first section will introduce a company which is Land Rover.The second part is body,we will evaluate some visualization techniques which were applied to official website design and the third part will summarize all infographics mentioned above. OK, let me give you a little bit of information about our topic.Stated simply,the automobile industry is a industry which designs cars,manufactures cars and sells cars.Especially It is one of the world's most important economic sectors by revenue. Next comes the company Land Rover which we are gonna take it as a example.Land rover is a English car brand and it offers a wide selection of SUV. Then I’m gonna show you guys some infographics which I select from the website www.landrover.ca.When you input the website address you will see this picture and then you can click here (vehicle) to enter the next page.So you will see this picture,showing all Land Rover’s vehicles to viewers directly.Obviously,altogether they have 5 models on sales.You might think why they use this picture right here.In my view pictures probably have more impact and power than financial graphs,because they connect directly with organizations through abstract forms. And then when you scroll down your mouse you can see this five models with a bit more detail and clear.I think a successful infographics needs to be unique,simple,and with minimal...
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...Do not wait until it is too late, global warming is a real problem that must be confronted now. The earth has heating and cooling cycles that are natural and right now the earth is in a heating cycle. The human activities that stared in the industrial revolution had altered this cycle; however, many people do not agree with this statement. The fact is that these activities created a problem that is called global warming. One evidence that proves that the global warming is real is the increment in the sea level. A group of individuals published an article called “Infographic: Sea Level Rise and Global Warming”. The article shows a bar graph of how the sea level increased faster in the cities on the east coast of the United States. Global average...
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...Protection Agencies Infographics To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/edu-644-new/edu-644-week-2-dq-1-child-protection-agencies-infographics In this discussion, the focus is on examining agencies responsible for child protection. You will sharpen your technology skills by creating an infographic about a specific agency. Infographics are a way to visualize data and information using text and graphics and can be powerful instructional tools, as noted in the Teaching With Infographics presentation and further explained in the Week Two Instructor Guidance. Prepare for this discussion by reading Rubin (2012) Chapter 1, the Principles and Philosophy resource, and the Week Two Instructor Guidance. Then, using the software of your choosing, be sure to attach or link to your infographic in your initial post. Your infographic will be included in the Week Six Final Project. Initial Post: Create an infographic using the software of your choice that includes the following: a. An engaging title for the infographic. b. A summary of a specific child protection agency’s vision, mission, guiding principles, or philosophies. c. A summary of how the agency’s philosophies, principles, and key policies support or align with the philosophical tenets promoted by the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) 1997. d. At least one image in the infographic. e. A references section that cites all information summarized in the infographic, including the child...
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...Five Fabulous Infographics PowerPoint In How to Easily Create TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THESE TEMPLATES ...1! ! ! ! CREATING A COLOR SCHEME…2! ! ! ! USING FONTS FOR DESIGN……3! ! ! ! DESIGN ICONS AND SHAPES….4! ! ! ! WORKING WITH A THEME……...5! ! ! ! CONCLUSION & RESOURCES…6! ABOUT THESE TEMPLATES Infographics are a powerful tool that companies and marketers can use to capture the attention of their target audiences. In fact, according to AnsonAlex, publishers who use infographics grow an average of 12% more in traffic than those who don’t. Infographics allow you to present what would normally be hard-to-digest information, in a way that readers can enjoy and understand. The problem lies in finding the time and resources to do so.! ! That’s why we’ve created six fully customizable templates that will give you the inspiration and foundation you need to build your own infographics right in PowerPoint.! ! But first, let’s dive into some tools you can use to customize these templates. ! ! TEXT To insert an image like the one above, you can simply drag any PNG or JPEG file into your slide.! PICTURE SHAPE POWERPOINT ELEMENTS By learning to use the three key elements of PowerPoint – text, picture, and shape – you can create high-quality infographics. Throughout this template, you’ll learn a number of ways to use these three elements to create your graphics.! THE ESSENTIAL FILL LINE EFFECTS POWERPOINT TOOLS While there are three essential elements, there...
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...– FINANCE For Exam 2 paper you will be developing two infographics based on the company you wrote about in your first paper. You will make 2 infographics, write one executive, and include reference page Infographic one: Financial statement analysis Do one vertical and one horizontal analysis. Do all the ratio analysis discussed in class. Infographic two: Analyzing the company stock: You are to analyze the stock. Use the following website to help you: http://www.nasdaq.com/investing/dozen/ Executive summary You are to write a one and a half to two page executive summary regarding what you presented in the two infographics. You are to address it to the CFO of the organization you are analyzing. The executive summary does NOT include references and citations within the executive summary but you will have it on a separate page. Your references should have the book and at least one peer-reviewed journal. You should describe the information presented (do not list the numbers = such as the current ratio is 1.20). You should focus on ratio groups (liquidity vs. current) and then highlight particular ratios within the groups that are problematic or areas they are doing well in. The next part of the executive summary should be about the stock. Use the stock market game to help you compare and contract the company stock to other stock Examples of infographics are: https://www.google.com/search?q=INFOGRAPHIC+EXAMPLES+FINANCE&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=947&am...
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...In the article ‘The power of infographics’，Smiciklas (2012) argues for the benefits and harm infographics may bring to us by highlighting the benefit of using infographics. The article is relevant to the report on visualization technique used by companies. However, the limitation of its relevance is that most of the words of the article is stating the positive aspects of visualization, only a few words is about the negative aspect. In addition, some evidence in the article is not strict enough and decrease the persuasion of the article. Therefore, it is not objective enough to as an academic source. The article is relevant to the assignment task, which clarifies the importance of using infographics to present information to shareholders, potential investors and the public. Smiciklas（2012） introduces some common sense and science knowledge about infographics, the reasons why infographics work for business and how to visualize numbers and concepts and what influences number and concept visualization will bring. Smiciklas (2012) argues that the use of infographics in marketing, content strategy and communication can help make a business cooretation. The author’s argument is based on several benefits of using infographics in the business context. While the author’s putting emphasis on how useful infographics is when it is implemented into the business communication mix is closely relevant to the assessment task, it is easy to observe that the author use only a few words to describe...
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...In the article ‘The power of infographics’, Mark (2012) states that how well the infographics fits for the business communication by evaluating its benefits and potential problems. According to the article, the content is relevant to the report including visual communication and data visualization. Although Mark (2012) takes up larger part to explain the advantage of infographics, its relevance is limited to describe the harmful of infographics so that the structure is incomplete. Furthermore, the author adopts a large number of references to convince the supporting ideas. However, some of these references from websites are not academic resources. On the basis of the author’s opinions, it is clear that the article is relevant to the assessment task including describing the effect of visual communication on business. Mark (2012) states that the advantage of using infographics can help audience to understand the business internal and spread the information further including consumers’ attention to different information will be enable to divide them by accessing useful visual data. Meanwhile, audience can share digitally views to others named sharebability which enhance business development. In another way, Mark (2012) divides the types of infographics into two parts called visual metaphors and cartoon. On basis of the content, cartoon has the ability of humor to attract people’s attention which makes the business information easily to be caught by audience as well as visual...
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...Computers and smart mobile phones are widely used, which lay the solid foundation for the e-commerce. 1.2 Definition of infographics Infogrphics can be defined as the way can deliver different messages in a easy way by visualization statistics and thoughts. (Smiciklas 2012,p13) 1.3 Purpose: This report will give definition of infographics and illustrate the reason why it is important. This report will analyze two visual communication techniques. Annual report of E-Bay will be introduced as a sample to evaluate the visual communication. 1. Importance of using infographics (Davison 2013, p58) The digital techniques developed very fast and make the visualization spread widely. Visualization leaves deeper impression to audience than words. Visualization can carry more information in a easier way. 2. Analysis for two infographics used in the annual report 3.1 Tables( Antwern 2013) Table is a form, which is one of the most common infographics technique and normally used in annual report. 3.4 Line graph (Smiciklas 2012,p 22) The usage of line graph can help audience to understand statistics better than tables and words for the trend it shows. Compare to the simple statistics displayed in table form, line graph can show every point during the whole year in annual report. 3. The infographics appliance in the annual report 4.1 an introduction of E-Bay annual report Contents of report: financing condition, management...
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...AAS 211 Infographic Project For this assignment, imagine your group (consisting of 2-3 individuals) is an advertisement firm hired by an Asian American community organization to produce an infographic to educate the general public on one major issue affecting the Asian American community. "Information graphics or infographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics are used where complex information needs to be explained quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education." The best way to familiarize yourself with the infographic genre is to look at examples online. (Quick Google search). Topic: Your infographic will cover one major topic or issue in the course. It will communicate this complex topic or issue in a simple way using printed information and visual material. Possible topics include: • Immigration context of any major ethnic group covered in the course • Asian American Identity (it's history, how it is mobilized today, etc.) • Asian American wage gap by gender & race/ethnicity • Interracial relationships / families (different Asian American family structures) • Asian American LGBTQ issues • How Model Minority Myth impacts on Asian American health • Asian American media / pop culture representations The professor will be open to topics that intersect with the course material (consult course syllabus & readings)...
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...The work created for this project is a new, revised infographic syllabus. This creation was in response to the controversy over the need of sex education. Sex education was created in the 20th century because many Americans started getting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) as well as military personnel involved in the world wars. As STDs became rampant, bureaucracies started creating programs that would inform and educate individuals about sex, its factors, and consequences. By the end of the 20th century, sex education became prominent. While there are many sex education programs, people question the effectiveness of the course. Many believe that they do not learn much from these programs. To try to end the controversy, I decided to create...
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...EMPLOYER PROJECT PROPOSAL HIGH LEVEL PROJECT SUMMARY (to be drafted by the employer) Contact Information Company Name | KCLau Dot Com Sdn Bhd | Employer Executive Sponsor Name, Position & Contact Information | Primary: Evanna Phoon (foundermethod@gmail.com)Secondary: KC Lau(kclau@kclau.com) | Employer Project/Process Owner Name, Position & Contact Information | Primary: Evanna Phoon (foundermethod@gmail.com)Secondary: KC Lau(kclau@kclau.com) | Project Name | Develop a short term Creative Marketing Plan for www.FounderMethod.com to increase their email subscribers to 1,000 & facebook likes to 1,000 likes in 6 months | Brief Profile of the Company | Please provide a short description of the company, its business, products, market presence and total manpower size www.FounderMethod.com is the first & only Business Tips, Training & Resources Online Platform for Malaysian Entrepreneurs. We invite practical expertise & proven successful entrepreneurs to share on our Webinar Platform. Our target audience are those who are time pressed staying in major city or staying remotely not in major city but is very keen to learn and get business information.We just started Feb 2013. | Project Problem Statement(s)/Challenge(s) | Please provide a short, market-oriented, statement identifying the problem this project will address. The statement should outline clearly what to be solved or addressed by the project team. Additional information can be added...
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...ioninteractive.com MARKETING Idea Book for Turning Content into Conversions C NTENT CREATE ENGAGE MARKET STRATEGIZE Landing Pages for Content is clearly king. That passion to learn is the fuel of content marketing. Valuable content spreads like wildfire—providing opportunities for the brands behind the content to capitalize on their blogs, white papers, infographics, webinars and slide decks. This guide to Landing Pages for Content Marketing takes a practical look at exactly how to deliver measurable, significant conversions for each of the major categories of content. Beyond the narrow view of dumping your content, behind a lead capture form (often called “gating the assets”), there exists creative ways to up-sell and cross-sell content to convert your audience’s attention into business results. This approach preserves the social and organic viability of content, while improving its business value. It also adds a new ROI layer of measurement and comparison to content marketing initiatives. For each category of content, we give you a couple of tactics —letting you get your feet wet with one before jumping into another. Everything here is designed to deepen engagement and participation with your brand while providing you with © i-on interactive, inc. All rights reserved. Across markets and personas, people have an insatiable appetite to consume information. measurable results from your content marketing initiatives—driving qualified leads & sales for your organization...
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...Download Infographic: Must Read Books in Data Science / Analyt… Resources - Data Science, Analytics and Big Data discussions Home Blog Jobs Trainings Learning Paths 21/07/15 8:48 pm j ADVERTISEMENT Download Infographic: Must Read Books in Data Science / Analytics books data_science datavisualization Manish ! Data Hackers 28d Hey there ! You can think of this infographic as an ideal list of books to have in bookshelf of every data scientist / analyst. These books cover a wide range of topics and perspective (not only technical knowledge), which should help you become a well rounded data scientist. If you have other suggestions, please feel free to add them below: Books related to data science decisioning: When Genius Failed: The Rise and fall of Long-Term Capital Management A fast paced thriller, this book not only brings out how you can compete on data based decisions, but also why you need to keep human behavior in mind while taking decisions on data. Scoring Points: How Tesco Continues to Win Customer Loyalty this book brings out some of the practical challenges faced by Tesco and how they overcame them to create one of the biggest success story of customer loyalty. The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction . From the stock market to the poker table, from earthquakes to the economy, Nate Silver takes us on an enthralling insider’s tour of the high-stakes world of forecasting, showing how we can use information...
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