Infographics--Cell Phone Use, Top Jobs for Critical Thinking, and Twitter Stats

http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/cellphone_infographic.jpg

This infographic displays the "Shocking Demographics of Cell Phone Use" around the world. Part of what makes this infographic so effective is simply the use of color, which personally drew me to look at it in the first place. The use of the same six colors makes it consistent, rather than using many more colors, which would seem to make it confusing. The reader is able to see how often cell phones are in use with each part of the world. The "Multi-Texting" part of the infographic is popular with a variety of demographics, displaying the acceptability of certain activities over 25 and under 25. What would help this infographic is to give an additional statistic between 1999 and 2009 of how many Americans used a cell phone in say, 2004 (as a middle-ground).


http://thinkwatson.com/Top-Jobs-For-Critical-Thinking.jpg

The way I see it, this infographic is extremely practical, especially for those who are looking for what to do as a future career. Entitled "Top Jobs for Critical Thinking", this infographic explains just that. From a range of some critical thinking to extensive critical thinking, What I think would be more helpful for this infographic would be to organize the jobs into specific sects of study (i.e., science, arts, variant forms of doctors). Otherwise this would be helpful to the more younger demographic--for example, if you are looking for a job involving more critical thinking than usual, you would look in the blue section of the circle and also be able to use the bottom section to help the person find the experience needed for that job--organized into overall experience, education, job training, and examples.

http://trendland.net/2010/05/03/information-is-beautiful/information-is-beautiful-7/

This infographic is condenses the largeness of the Twitter community down to just 100 people, displayed in the amount of active/empty accounts, kinds of tweets (inane, chatty, good, egotistic, and grr!), peak days and peak hours of tweeting occurrences. The only thing I would like to be added in this infographic is more color, which is shown towards the beginning of the image, but remains inconsistent throughout the rest of the image.