Digital Resources: Piktochart

If you are a consumer of social media, chances are you have come across quantitative information presented in a vivid, visual manner. These aids go beyond the simple pie/bar/scatterplot arrangement of information and incorporate meaningful icons and images to relay the information more clearly and accessibly. Piktochart is a web-based tool that can help you and your students to create custom infographics easily.

This is a diagram I designed for an in-service presentation
You can navigate through the design process using the menus
on the side of the screen.

Piktochart has a somewhat limited collection of free templates, although you are able to create your own infographic (without the benefit of a template) without a paid subscription. Although access to templates is limited, a free subscription provides access to a fairly extensive gallery of icons and shapes. You can also upload your own images to use in your graphic.

In addition to making graphics for web publication, Piktochart can also be used to make vibrant images for presentations or for printing. The software is very easy to use, and navigation is also simple. You can even import results from surveys created using Survey Monkey as well as videos from You Tube or Vimeo. Another interesting feature is the option to include interactive maps that display data when a mouse hovers over a part of the map (such as a state or a country). You can also easily create beautiful charts within the program rather than importing graphs from another program. 

Piktochart is an easy way for users to display information and data in beautiful and innovative ways. This allows users to convey messages that are meaningful while they are also grounded in substantial quantitative or qualitative data. 

Where: www.piktochart.com

Cost: Free (with paid subscription/upgrade)

What: Web-based infographic design software

Students! Try Piktochart if you want to...

create infographics for a presentation or web publication

use an innovative and eye-catching way to express data or survey results

Teachers! Try Piktochart f you want to...

share quantitative data in a innovative way with students or colleagues

present complex information in a clear and engaging way