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Complexity in Information Systems Development pp 167–184Cite as

Processes of Creating Infographics for Data Visualization

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This paper presents a brief overview of infographics, together with study which was originated to discover what motivates people to design infographics and what are the components of the creative process. Section 2 provides a literature overview. Section 3 outlines the methodology of experiment. Section 4 presents obtained results. Section 5 presents conclusions and future directions in studies of processes in designing infographics, outlines the important problem for further research.

A prior version of this paper has been published in the ISD2016 Proceedings (http://aisel.aisnet.org/isd2014/proceedings2016).

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    Mateusz Szołtysik

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  1. Department of Knowledge Engineering, University of Economics in Katowice, Katowice, Poland

    Jerzy Goluchowski

  2. Department of Informatics, University of Economics in Katowice, Katowice, Poland

    Malgorzata Pankowska

  3. Caulfield School Information Technology, Monash University, Caulfield East, Victoria, Australia

    Henry Linger

  4. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Chris Barry

  5. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Michael Lang

  6. Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Christoph Schneider

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Szołtysik, M. (2017). Processes of Creating Infographics for Data Visualization. In: Goluchowski, J., Pankowska, M., Linger, H., Barry, C., Lang, M., Schneider, C. (eds) Complexity in Information Systems Development. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52593-8_11

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