Love or hate infographics, there’s no denying that they do a good job of catching the attention of readers and driving page views. But there’s a price to pay for that kind of traffic-driver; creating them can be incredibly time-consuming, or costly if outsourced to an external designer or design firm. So here are 5 online tools, which promise to let users make their own data visualizations for free.

easel.ly

In many cases, computer graphics on the Internet is a much needed resource to move data and information as clearly and concisely as possible, to improve their comprehension and understanding, rather than the use of texts. But not everyone has the tools and resources needed to conduct their own computer graphics.

For these people, and for anyone else who wants it, have in Easel.ly the right tool for your own computer graphics in simple and clear. Easel.ly offers a virtual whiteboard to include and configure the different elements that are available and can start from scratch or from some of the issues and pre-defined. You will only have to add objects available in different categories, shapes, text, graphics, and images of their own, giving each of these elements necessary properties and can be made not to alter or block by accident.

Upon completion of computer graphics, they can be exported as PNG, JPG, PDG, and SVG. Users can register Easel.ly to save your own computer graphics. Precisely users make use of this service must have Firefox, Chrome or Safari as web browsers, and browsers that are supported, which does not occur with Internet Explorer, according to the service itself.Easel.ly is currently in beta, some options are still developing, but for now its use is free.

Good Labs

Free online tool to make your own infographic.

http://visual.ly/

Visual.ly is sort-of like a social network for infographic and visualisation sharing (talk about niche markets). You can explore, share and, in the near future, even create your own. When you open up the home page, you are greeted by a continuous scrolling of some of the best infographics currently on the website, and signing up takes a minute via the link on the top-right of the page (sign-up is free).

infogr.am

Infogr.am is a online apps that makes a web-based data visualization applications for non-designers to create professionally designed infographics and visualizations in minutes. No programming or design skills needed. Tool is aimed at news portals, journalists, bloggers.

TweetSheet

Tweetsheet scans your last 3200 tweets (which is Twitter’s API maximum) and as you can see delivers some useful information, which includes a month-by-month summary of your tweet totals (including numerics on those which received a reply or retweet), your most re-tweeted posts, geographic impact, best followers and the most common themes that you like to talk about on Twitter.