What Killed The Infographic?

Good analyses of where data visualisation is heading: "Today, a slew of new software has made it easier than ever to create data visualizations from scratch. The downside? It has led to more prescriptive design. Take D3. It's a JavaScript library that helps turn information into any number of visual frameworks...Beyond D3... Tableau is the crown jewel... visualization software costing $1,000 per user... used by more than 26,000 companies around the globe... Today, smartphones and tablets represent roughly 50% of the web’s traffic. That’s a huge chunk of Internet mindshare that a sprawling, ambitious data visualization would be wasted on... simple bar graphs... often make more sense... [and] Insight Is Replacing Infographics... No one needs to see a weather radar... all you really want to know is whether or not you need an umbrella... condensed into a single, text-based push notification " - What Killed The Infographic? | Co.Design | business + design