Tech Tools
PixCone is a web application for building infographics, whether you’re an expert or just getting started. There’s an editor where you drag and drop charts, images, texts, and shapes to compose an infographic. Infographics can be downloaded locally, ready to be used everywhere: blogs, webzine or press. It works on the browser: zero installation or configuration issues on your computer! Be sure to check out the multimedia section of this site for more infographics tips!
SwayWhat helps you create and share charts. You can select from several chart types, enter in the data and it does the rest for you. Embed the charts or print them to add a helpful graphic for a story that is heavy on numbers.
Creative Commons is a database of images that, for the most part, have been made available for public use. If you would like to use an image as part of a story, it’s best to find it on Creative Commons instead of a Google search.
Creatavist is a platform that allows you do create your own interactive storytelling experience by combining videos, text, images, audio clips, maps and more.
ThingLink is platform for building interactive images, letting the user annotate pictures with pop-out boxes for text, links and video.
Timeline JS is a service from Knight Lab that allows you to create timelines and embed multimedia.
Need Help with Data?
SparkWise is a metric-tracking site that is “designed to put data to good use. By collecting and comparing metrics and combining those raw numbers with video, audio, text feeds and PDFs–your data becomes a moving story.”
Captricity is a low-cost, data-crunching tool that can be used to cheaply process paper forms into digital data.
Tabula pulls data from PDF files and converts it into a spread sheet.