Government is making lots more data available openly but as communicators we can do much more than release a lot of excel spreadsheets and expect it to improve everyone’s lives.

That’s why I love infographics.

They make data (maths, spreadsheets... eurgh) into simple, powerful images that express things so that people like me can understand them (fonts, colours, hooray!)

So if you too would like to learn to love infographics, here are 14 top tips I’ve picked up along the way...