Victoria Merkulova

Infographics are a progressive way of communicating information through visual media. It is a tool for persuading others and conveying the information you want. An infographic designer creates cool multimedia products without the help of programmers or designers.

Key skills

• Data retrieval and preparation of dataset
• Creation and basic chart design in Excel
• Select type and visualization tools
• Creation of infographics in Tableau
• Creation of static and interactive infographics
• Selecting fonts and color palettes for your presentation
• Applying the laws of composition and creating a grid for slides
• Creating a cartographic visualization
• Creating a scribing scheme
• Applying principles of storytelling
• Working with tools to create multimedia stories
• Creating animations based on data

Working tools

Tableau Public
Free data visualization service that allows you to create and publish infographics online and work with files to analyze up to 15 million rows.

Microsoft Excel
A spreadsheet program that is one of the most popular applications in the world. It allows you to build graphs and charts based on data and work with tables.

Google Docs
Document and spreadsheet collaboration service.

Microsoft PowerPoint
Program for preparing and viewing presentations.

Infogr.am
Service for quick creation of infographics.

RAWGraphs
Service for data visualization, which works with values from tables, csv and tsv, with copies and text boxes from other applications (for example, Excel).