Interpret
The Ski Utah infographic
below, created by
Michael Greenberg when
he was a high school
senior, gives a sense
of how a single
infographic can
represent multiple
data sets.
Create
Introduce Infographics
Ask your students to pretend they
work for the Utah tourism bureau.
Their charge is to design a promo-
tional poster that will convince visitors
that Utah’s slogan, “The Greatest Snow
on Earth,” is true. Let them talk to one
another and noodle around a bit with
sketches.
Share Michael Greenberg’s Ski Utah
infographic. Display an enlarged view
from his Graph the Info blog at www.
graphthe.info.
Ask students what they learned about
skiing in Utah from Greenberg’s pictorial
representation. Encourage them to examine
the legend, which describes an unusual
representation of area. Ask what they can
infer about the mountains that may get the
most and least business. Ask them to make
conjectures about how many data sets the
infographic represents and how Greenberg
derived them.
Ask how they could represent other
data of interest to someone contemplating a Utah ski vacation, such as
the distance from the airport or winter
temperatures.
Together, read what Greenberg writes
on his blog about the five-step
process he used to create the Ski Utah
infographic.
