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Piktochart Website Revamp
15 October 2011 | Pikto | Piktochart News
Hello all, At Piktochart, we have been working tirelessly to constantly improve our UI. As we are approaching Demo Day in Chinaccelerator, we have been bogged by things like the pitch, presentation decks, getting all gears running. But there is one thing we must not forget. We have been getting lots of feedback from our [...]
The Silent Video
7 October 2011 | Pikto | Infograph
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEgX5KFLzhM[/youtube] We created this video and while we are still looking for a suitable voice over, we would like you to fill in the blanks. What did Dave say for the first 20 seconds?
Our first AYTM Survey
5 October 2011 | Pikto | Business
And the results were…. pretty horrid. As transparent as we would like to be, we know that Piktochart has a long way to go before we manage to fix everything on the app (especially the fact that data visualization channels are not on green light). That said, we used a service called AYTM (Ask Your [...]
Our secret beta stash
3 October 2011 | Pikto | Piktochart News
Do you know what keeps us going throughout the night and morning? – Lots and lots of coffee – Lots of good music- Andrea has this mash up by DJ Bruno and it is a delight at 2AM – A stash of junk food, like the photo below – A carton of beer cans… – [...]
Colours in Telling a story
2 October 2011 | Pikto | Data Collection & Research
3 Ground Rules to Start with: This rule may appeal less to a pictographic piece of information. No more than 6 colors Use cultural conventions e.g. anger = danger Beware of bad interactions (red/blue etc.) There are 3 safe ways to pick your colour scheme in creating a data visualization. Similar colours (a.k.a. analogous [...]
Variables in Visual Encoding
2 October 2011 | Pikto | Data Collection & Research
Jock Mackinlay was born in Nuremberg, Germany and received his BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1975 and his PhD in computer science fromStanford University in 1986, where he pioneered the automatic design of graphical presentations of relational information. Wait, what has he got to do with visual encoding and how we see information? Mackinlay invented several methods of [...]
Uni, Bi or Tri-Variate
2 October 2011 | Pikto | Data Collection & Research
On Piktochart, the Chart Wizard helps you to select the method of data visualization which you could use for your data set. This is a little insight to how Wizard does that: Data is usually commonly shown in the 3 formats below: Univariate – x only (contains only one axis of information) Bivariate – x [...]
Why Visualize Data?
2 October 2011 | Pikto | Data Collection & Research
We are living in the age where data is huge. We can now monitor everything and establish connections (or just correlations between events). With so much going on, we have to find the best way to communicate all these information. Data visualization the following: Conveys: Persuades people about something Collaborates: Presents an interesting/thought provoking argument [...]
DIY Infographic Creator
2 October 2011 | Pikto | Piktochart News
Tell a story out of data. Make content more memorable. 30 sec introduction to Piktochart Silent Demo of the product. Take a look at the short video clip we have created on Piktochart. Do you understand what it means? Tweet us @piktochart or email us at info[at]piktochart[dot]com Thanks!
Pikto Name Cards
1 October 2011 | Pikto | Piktochart News
Take a look at the name cards we got printed for Piktochart. We should have done without the phone numbers and gone straight to Twitter, Skype, Facebook and email. After all, who powers communication with phones these days? Vote your way up or down!
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