Visual.ly is a community platform for data visualization and infographics.[1] It was founded by Stew Langille, Lee Sherman, Tal Siach, and Adam Breckler in 2011.
Visual.ly was inspired by the founders’ time at Mint.com.[2] As Mint's Director of Marketing, Langille noticed that the infographics posted to MintLife, the company blog, generated 30 times more traffic than a comparable text article.[3][4] According to Langille, “we knew we were onto something big.”[5]
In April 2011, Langille, along with MintLife's Editor-in-Chief Lee Sherman and Adam Breckler, a Mint web developer, left Mint.com to co-found Visual.ly with Tal Siach, the founder of Walyou, an Israeli gadget site.[6][7][8] Langille states that Visual.ly works towards evolving how digital news media outlets present information, similar to how USA Today’s weather infographics transformed news outlets in the early ‘90s and how Wired’s graphic design influenced digital media in the early 2000s.[9]
In October 2011, Visual.ly announced a $2 million round in seed funding, led by Crosslink Capital, 500 Startups, and SoftTech.[1][10] At the time of the announcement, Visual.ly had 26,000 users, 7,000 infographics, and 1 million monthly page views.[1] They have partnered with The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, AskMen, CNNMoney, and National Geographic, among other media outlets, to provide infographics and data visualizations.[1]
Site structureedit
Visual.ly is structured both as a showcase for infographics as well as a marketplace and community for publishers, designers, and researchers.[5] The site allows users to search images through description, tags, and sources in a variety of categories, ranging from Education to Business or Politics.[11] Users can publish infographics to their personal profile, which they can subsequently share through their social networks.[12]
Visual.ly maintains a team of data analysts, journalists, and designers that create infographics and data visualizations using the Visual.ly tools.[13][14][15] They are currently developing a tool that allows anyone to create and publish their own data visualizations.[14] Through this tool, users will be able to gather information from databases and APIs in an automated service (meaning that users only need to specify the kind of information they want to visually display) to produce an infographic.[9] Visual.ly’s first tool, the Twitter Visualizer tool allows users to input the Twitter handles of two people, and then generates an infographic comparing the hobbies, number of followers and occupation of the two accounts.[16][17]CBC used this feature to compare leading politicians.[18]
Receptionedit
Visual.ly’s infographics have been featured on NPR, The Huffington Post and CNN.[19][20][21] They were named as one of Inc. Magazine’s 10 new web tools to make life easier.[22] Their YouTube channel has received over 100,000 views.[23]
Referencesedit
^ abcdTsotsis, Alexia. Visual.ly Raises $2 Million To Make Even More Infographics. October 20, 2011.
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platform for data visualization and infographics 1 It was founded by Stew Langille Lee Sherman Tal Siach and Adam Breckler in 2011 VisuallyType of siteInfographics amp Data VisualizationsAvailable inEnglishOwnerScribbleLiveKey peopleVince Mifsud CEOURLvisual wbr lyCommercialYesLaunched2011Current statusActive Contents 1 History 2 Site structure 3 Reception 4 References 5 External linksHistory editVisual ly was inspired by the founders time at Mint com 2 As Mint s Director of Marketing Langille noticed that the infographics posted to MintLife the company blog generated 30 times more traffic than a comparable text article 3 4 According to Langille we knew we were onto something big 5 In April 2011 Langille along with MintLife s Editor in Chief Lee Sherman and Adam Breckler a Mint web developer left Mint com to co found Visual ly with Tal Siach the founder of Walyou an Israeli gadget site 6 7 8 Langille states that Visual ly works towards evolving how digital news media outlets present information similar to how USA Today s weather infographics transformed news outlets in the early 90s and how Wired s graphic design influenced digital media in the early 2000s 9 In October 2011 Visual ly announced a 2 million round in seed funding led by Crosslink Capital 500 Startups and SoftTech 1 10 At the time of the announcement Visual ly had 26 000 users 7 000 infographics and 1 million monthly page views 1 They have partnered with The Atlantic Buzzfeed AskMen CNNMoney and National Geographic among other media outlets to provide infographics and data visualizations 1 Site structure editVisual ly is structured both as a showcase for infographics as well as a marketplace and community for publishers designers and researchers 5 The site allows users to search images through description tags and sources in a variety of categories ranging from Education to Business or Politics 11 Users can publish infographics to their personal profile which they can subsequently share through their social networks 12 Visual ly maintains a team of data analysts journalists and designers that create infographics and data visualizations using the Visual ly tools 13 14 15 They are currently developing a tool that allows anyone to create and publish their own data visualizations 14 Through this tool users will be able to gather information from databases and APIs in an automated service meaning that users only need to specify the kind of information they want to visually display to produce an infographic 9 Visual ly s first tool the Twitter Visualizer tool allows users to input the Twitter handles of two people and then generates an infographic comparing the hobbies number of followers and occupation of the two accounts 16 17 CBC used this feature to compare leading politicians 18 Reception editVisual ly s infographics have been featured on NPR The Huffington Post and CNN 19 20 21 They were named as one of Inc Magazine s 10 new web tools to make life easier 22 Their YouTube channel has received over 100 000 views 23 References edit a b c d Tsotsis Alexia Visual ly Raises 2 Million To Make Even More Infographics October 20 2011 Team Visual ly Our Best Financial Infographics of 2009 MintLife December 22 2009 Rufus Anneli Stew Langille Infograph Guru AskMen July 28 2011 a b O Dell Jolie Find amp Make Your Own Infographics With Visual ly Mashable July 13 2011 Tsotsis Alexia The Seven Most Interesting Startups At 500 Startups Demo Day TCTV TechCrunch April 8 2011 Yarow Jay The Data Viz Whizzes From Mint Are Launching A New Startup Visual ly Business Insider April 6 2012 Kuang Cliff Visual ly Wants To Make It Easy to Hire Infographic Genius Fast Company a b Cheredar Tom Visual ly raises 2M to make your data pretty and interesting VentureBeat October 20 2011 Merino Faith Infographics platform Visual ly raises 2M VatorNews October 20 2011 Finn Greg Data Visualization amp Infographic Search Engine Visual ly Launches Search Engine Land July 13 2011 Dawson Brianne Visual ly Infographics Explain B2B Marketing Concepts Business 2 Community October 20 2011 Ha Anthony and Matthew Lynley The coolest companies from Dave McClure s 500 Startups Venture Beat April 6 2011 a b Zitron Ed The Media s Future is Visual ly Charged Forbes April 26 2011 Gannes Liz visual ly Wants to Bring Nifty Charts and Graphs to the Rest of Us All Things D July 13 2011 Henry Alan Visual ly Is An Infographics Hub With Tools to Create Your Own Lifehacker July 14 2011 Chima Chikodi How infographics jumped the shark December 1 2011 How do the political leaders compare on Twitter CBC November 19 2011 Krulwich Robert Are You Totally Improbable Or Totally Inevitable NPR November 21 2011 U S Unemployment Putting Jobs Layoffs Into Perspective GRAPHIC The Huffington Post August 9 2011 Where the Jobs Are CNN Brandon John 10 New Web Tools to Make Life Easier Inc November 9 2011 Visual ly on YouTube External links editVisual ly Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Visual ly amp 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