text: Infographics are finding a home in the classroom as well. Courses that teach students to create their own infographics using a variety of tools may encourage engagement in the classroom and may lead to a better understanding of the concepts they are mapping onto the graphics.
  With the popularity of social media, infographics have become popular, often as static images or simple web interfaces, covering any number of topics. Such infographics are often shared between users of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+ and Reddit. The hashtag #infographic was tweeted 56,765 times in March 2012 and at its peak 3,365 times in a span of 24 hours.
  Analysis
  The three parts of all infographics are the visual, the content, and the knowledge.  The visual consists of colors and graphics.  There are two different types of graphics – theme, and reference.  These graphics are included in all infographics and represent the underlying visual representation of the data.  Reference graphics are generally icons that can be used to point to certain data, although they are not always found in infographics.  Statistics and facts usually serve as the content for infographics and can be obtained from any number of sources, including census data and news reports.  One of the most important aspects of infographics is that they contain some sort of insight into the data that they are presenting – this is the knowledge.