Info-graphics: 3D Printer Cheat Sheet

The growth of 3D printing has taken off in the last five years, but what does that mean for your access to the technology? What will it be used for? How might it change our society in the short and long-term?

This infographic shows you the prices of 3D printers from enterprise to consumer levels, what materials they’re using, and how we might be using the technology in the future.

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200 Moments That Changed the World

Over the past two centuries, history has been changed by a series of interconnected events. (Mouse over the image to zoom in.)

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Info-graphics: What is your preferred method of wasting time at work?

While Americans put in some of the longest hours of workers around the globe, how many of those hours are really spent helping their employers? If you’re in charge of managing your company’s bottom line, you may not want to know the answer.

Here’s an infographic that explores the various ways employees spend their time when they’re at work, but not working. Use this Infographic (created for BOLT by Infographic World) to help you more easily visualize and retain this information to protect your business and increase your workplace productivity.

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Dashboards: Data Visualization for all Elements of the Business

It is time to stop thinking of dashboards as a “nice to have” and instead view the technology as a way to provide everyone in the company with a common version of the truth. Long-gone are the clunky spreadsheets and simple, static graphs; data visualization has evolved into a dynamic discipline that is opening up new doors for the exploration and analysis of complex data sets for a wide range of businesses.

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Info-graphics: A buyer's guide to cloud apps

This infographic (courtesy of Veracode) offers a snapshot of the cloud application market, the primary purchasing decisions that must be addressed, and a general feel for the data protection issues that concern would-be buyers.

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Survey: Trends in Mobile Collaboration Survey 2012: Info-graphics

Copiun Inc announced the results of its survey, conducted with International Marketing and Technology Solutions, Inc. (IMTS), the survey was designed to help IT decision makers determine the security and data risks of mobile collaboration. Key findings indicate more than fifty percent of the companies surveyed are now planning Mobile Productivity projects to allow employees to access, sync and share documents using mobile devices. The survey also reveals that the biggest challenges facing C-level executives and IT decision-makers in mobility are data security and compliance management. See info graphics

Info-graphics: Generation gap in computer security

When it comes to computer security, the attitudes of users have a lot to do with how much risk is introduced into an organization due to online behavior and general tech savvy. How does it break down between generations? This snapshot from ZoneAlarm shows the differences in priorities, concerns, and other security-related issues between Gen Y and Baby Boomers.

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Info-graphics: How To Twitter

New to Twitter and wondering how to get started? This post have made this fun 'how to twitter' infographic to help one get going quickly. It tries to answer beginner questions such as how to set up your Twitter account, how to start tweeting, and how to use hashtags and lists. Hope you will enjoy!

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Info-graphics: How Internet users worldwide spend time online

Thirty percent of the world’s population spends time online.

That may not seem like a large percentage, but it represents 2,095,006,005 people who spend a cumulative 35 billion hours online each month. That’s equivalent to 3,995,444 years, an infographic from Go-Gulf.com says.

What does everyone do during all that time?

The average Internet user spends most of his time online on social media (22 percent), search (21 percent), reading content (20 percent), and email (19 percent).

Internet users visit Google more than any other website, but spend more time on Facebook than anywhere else.

Here are a few more interesting facts about the world’s online habits:

-- People search more than 1 billion queries on Google per day.
-- Location-based services are the fastest growing Internet trend.
-- The United Kingdom has the highest online population. The United States ranks fifth.
-- More than 56 percent of social media users use social networks to spy on their significant others.

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Info-graphics: History of Email

So Electronic MAIL, literally meant the Electronic version of MAIL. What was MAIL in 1978? MAIL meant inter-office communications. Such a communication was called a "letter" or "memorandum" or "inter- intra-office mail". A typical MAIL had the title of MEMORANDUM, with "To:", "From:", "Date:", "Subject:", "Cc:", "Bcc:", "Attachment", elements. This was the meaning of MAIL. "Electronic MAIL" system - one that would convert the paper transmittal of MEMOS with an electronic equivalent for UMDNJ.

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Video Info-graphics: How Green Is Your Internet?

How Green Is Your Internet? is sparse on the visualizations, but it uses some beautiful depth of field effects and iconic symbols to help teach viewers about the carbon footprint of several tech companies.

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Info-graphics: Global Map of Social Networking 2011

The Global Map of Social Networking 2011 is a great example of successful experimentation with combining multiple visualizations into one. The map is used well to show general location, but it fades into the background since it is not the most important information. The bar charts show great data about quantity, and the venn diagrams show how those quantities overlap each other. In addition, since there are so many venn diagrams, they can be compared to each other like small multiples. It’s wonderful when combinations go so well together!

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Info-graphics: The Evolution of Video Game Controllers

It’s rare that a visualization can get away with one to one pictorial representations, but does a great job with it. It combines a timeline with a node-link diagram showing ancestry. The pictorial representations are good because they show the characteristics of each controller. What are the grandparents of your favorite game controller?

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Info-graphics: Envisioning Technology

Usually we think of technology expanding exponentially, and of timelines being linear. These two concepts don’t seem to go together well, but Envisioning Technology manages to merge both into the same graphic. Time progresses as the radius of the background rings increase, but since these are circular, the available space for each technology branch grows quadratically. The future certainly holds a gloriously diverse set of technology, and this visualization does a good job of showing the predicted arrival times of some of them.

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