-http://www.vizworld.com/2009/07/health-care-reform-obfuscated-by-infographics/
A good example of an infographic that, in my opinion, obfuscates the information is the Health Care Reform bill graph. House Republican John Boehner released the graph on July 31, 2009. The graph could be one of the worst infographics out there because it doesn’t make the bill or the process any easier to understand. The infographic is flowchart with so many arrows leading in so many different directions that it is easy to simply get lost in the multitude of it all. A flowchart usually has a clear starting point from which the viewer can then move to the next point and so forth and so forth. On this infographic there doesn’t appear to be any sort of starting point and if there is then it is so covered up by all the other stuff that it is easy to miss. The graph also uses a multitude of colors and usually that wouldn’t have been a bad idea. Colors help us distinct different elements in the same graph. In this graph there are so many different colors and they don’t appear to follow any set rules. Some boxes that are colored have the same colored arrows leading from them but then at the same time there are colored boxes that have totally different colors coming from them. Apparently in an effort to make the graph more understandably the makers also included some cultural symbols but there are only three of them and the symbolism doesn’t appear to follow any rules either since there are red and white lines that come from the symbols.
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