Reading Response (infographics)

Appealing facts, mass statistics, mind-boggling numbers, and layers of information. These are a few strong factors that make information graphics appealing. In The Numbers Man reading Feltron mentions how people are drawn to the density and particular obsessiveness of information graphics. The density of statistics is overwhelming in consideration but when presented properly and effectively should be comprehensible simply by viewing. The actual factual quantity or amount in an information graphic is shown through size and set increments in graphing. This is part of the primary function of information graphics: to visually display information. The actuality of the information may be enormous but is taken and displayed in a way that is accessible, and better yet visually accessible. Some information graphics can, and should, convey information without the viewer having to read anything. In the Lupton reading, Lupton writes, "The literate human mind has no difficulty switching between seeing and reading." This is what we have been striving for in our information graphics, displaying factual, quantitative information that can be seen as easily as read.