Frequently Asked Questions about Visually Create

What is Visually Create?
Visual.ly Create allows you to automatically generate infographics based on data from your Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Three infographics can be generated using Twitter data:

  • Life of a Hashtag - Analyzes the appearances of a hashtag over the past month
  • Showdown - Compares two Twitter accounts in a head-to-head battle
  • Twitterizer - Analyzes a given Twitter account to create a personalized character based on followers, tweets, and community engagement

Two infographics can be generated using Facebook data:

  • Dr. Visually’s Automagical Facebook Monsterizer - Analyzes a given Facebook profile to create a personalized character and highlight top friends, and popular photos and messages
  • Facebook Insider - Analyzes the performance of Facebook page content and fan engagement (only available for administrators of Facebook pages)

For each infographic, multiple themes are available. Themes are like skins that allow you generate the same infographic with a different appearance, including different colors, fonts and overall style.

What are you building next?
The automated infographic generation tool will be expanded to include wider selection of input data beyond Twitter and Facebook . More themes will be created to give a wider selection of visual styles for infographics.

Will more types of data be made available?
Yes. Follow us on Twitter @visually to get updates.

Can you create infographics using my data?
Please get in touch with us here about automating infographics for your data.

I’m having trouble generating infographics.
Use the feedback tab on the right side of the page to tell us about the problem, or reach us on the contact page.

HOW TO INTERPRET THE INFOGRAPHICS

Twitter Hashtag
Input a hashtag such as #SXSW and this infographic will visualize the number of times that the hashtag appeared in the past 30 days, as well as identify some influential Twitter accounts that mentioned the hashtag.

A hashtag “appears” or is “mentioned” any time a Twitter user creates a tweet containing the hashtag. The total number of appearance per day is graphed. The number of appearances on the first day, peak day, and last day in the 30-day period are highlighted. If a hashtag is either winding down or ramping up, the peak day may coincide with either the first or last day in the range.

Influential Twitter accounts mentioning the hashtag are identified on the first day, the peak day, and the last day in the 30 day period. Influence is determined by the number of people following a given account.

Twitter accounts identified as Top Influencers are accounts that created the most positive or negative tweet content based on sentiment analysis. These are accounts that used strong language alongside the hashtag.

Twitter Showdown

For all of these measurements, a higher value is better.
Followers: The number of Twitter accounts subscribed to the account in question

Follower to Following Ratio: Indicates popularity. Measures how effectively the account gets followers without having to follow back. An account with 5,000 followers and following 500 other accounts would have a ratio of 10:1.

Tweet Engagement (Mentions, last 4 weeks): A raw measure of how many people are talking with or about the Twitter user. The number of times per week in the past month that the account has been mentioned in a tweet.

Mentions per Tweet: Indicates the effectiveness of individual tweets in generating mentions. This number compares the number of times the account has been mentions with the number of times the account has tweeted.

Tweet Timing: Shows frequency of tweets throughout the week. Counts the number of times that an account tweets each day in increments of two hours.

Facebook Page Insider

Impressions: These are views. Represents the total number of views of any piece of content.
Engagements: These are clicks. Represents the number of clicks on any content or action.
Stories: This is the name that Facebook gives to actions including likes, shares, and comments.

Facebook Monsterizer
This infographic generates the following information:

You, Tagged in Photos

  • Number of people in photos (average)
  • Number of times you smiled

Your History

  • Top photo you’ve uploaded (by number of likes received)
  • Top status message you’ve created (by number of likes received)

Your Friends

  • Your top 5 friends (ranked by number of likes and comments they’ve given you)
  • Count of male and female friends you have
  • Relationship status of all friends (anonymously)
  • Location of all friends by continent

Last but not least,
Your Monster Avatar, Blinged Out to Varying Degrees Based on Your...

  • Mood in photos
  • Number of times you wear glasses or sunglasses
  • Number of friends you have
  • Number of total likes you’ve received, ever
  • Relationship status
  • Number of international friends you have
  • Number of photos you’ve uploaded
  • Month of birth