Infographics are a fun, useful and attention-grabbing method of conveying chunks of information in graphics, pictures and animations. Businesses are using them more and more to get across ideas, meet a target audience or to advertise in papers or on websites.

Earlier today I trawled through the internet to bring you five of my favourite.

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‘Ten things we fear and love about BYOD’ and ‘BYOD by the Numbers’

How will BYOD affect the workplace, what drives BYOD and how will it fit in with security in the office?

Take a look at these two infographics to get the facts surrounding the current state of BYOD.

 

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‘The Anatomy of an App’ shows us the insides of app development, and some of Apple’s and Android’s best sellers. The infographic also dives into what makes a top app, in case you were thinking of making your own.

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Hackers

This extensive infographic will help you protect yourself from hackers. Facts include how they find you and also what to use to stop them.

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‘One Second On The Internet’ is an absolutely stunning animated infographic. Where does it end!? This one does a really good job of formulating in graphics numbers that the human brain struggles to compute.

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The Scale of the Universe

I’m not exaggurating this at all. This animated flash infographic will make your day. From the quantum small to the super-massive, explore the sizes of objects in the universe with your mosue wheel. Try not to spend too long on it or else your head will start hurting and you’ll start questioning the meaning of life. To make things even better, every object on this infographic is clickable and has an explanation that pops up next to it.