I’ve just completed an interesting project for Vodafone, creating a series of data graphs and infographics for their latest audit report.
In an effort to cut down on unnecessary printed materials, Vodafone decided to create this years’ audit report in a digital format so that their employees could read it on the move at their leisure. The brief was a new one on me as the priority was on getting the facts and figures across clearly and quickly. Most of my work is about how the final product looks, but aesthetics took a back seat while I researched a suitable method of creating really nice-looking graphs to present the data.
I ended up going with SmartDraw, a very versatile programme that can create a huge number of graphs, visualisations, data flows and network diagrams. The only downside was that it only runs on Windows so my MacBook Pro was shelved while I worked on the project!
I can’t show any detailed screenshots here as the data is sensitive, but the image above gives an idea of one of the infographics – a combination of graphs and text-based statistics. There’s another audit due January 2010 so I hope there’s a Mac version available by then!
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