A beginner’s guide to using text in data visualization

Discover the most effective techniques for using text to create clear and understandable data visualizations

How to choose the right chart type for your data

Confused about which visualization type to choose? This post will help you pick the most effective Flourish visualization for your data

3 reasons why visual communication is key to business growth

Insights from Canva’s Visual Economy Report to elevate how your business communicates

From static to interactive: turn SVG diagrams into exciting experiences on your website

Captivate and educate your audience with interactive illustrations, infographics, and website elements

Eight ways to visualize football data

Bring Premier League data to life with interactive charts, league tables, fantasy football, and more

Elevate your data story with annotations

Maximize the impact of your data visualizations by adding annotations to your charts and maps

Record-breaking heat: visualizing the effects of the climate crisis

We explored rising temperatures and their impact through interactive data visualizations

World Refugee Day: when people are forced to leave

We looked into the latest migration trends to understand where people go when they have to leave their homes

How Tortoise & Sky News built a powerful data exploration tool with the Flourish SDK

Learn how the two newsrooms used Flourish to create the Westminster Accounts, an innovative data exploration platform

Introducing scrollytelling: the future of immersive data storytelling

Creating immersive digital stories is easier than ever with our new no-code scrollytelling builder

Boost engagement with interactive calculators – from budgets to carbon footprints

Discover our new premium template, perfect for creating powerful, embeddable calculators – with Google Sheets integration

Dual axis charts: double the fun or double the trouble?

Learn the pros and cons of dual axis charts, how to make them with Flourish and how to master them

How to visualize Google Trends data

Uncovering insights – how to make the most of Google Trends with Flourish

Masters series: William Playfair, the father of statistical graphics

Celebrating the legacy of the creator of the line chart, bar chart and pie chart 200 years after his death

We don’t make mistakes, just happy accidents: Visualizing Bob Ross’ works

Exploring the palette and patterns of Bob Ross’ paintings through data visualization

My type on paper: the data behind Love Island success

We analyzed the data behind Love Island to find out which couples are still together, and who might've entered the show looking for fame instead of love.

Choosing the right map type for your data

Looking to represent your geographical data on a map? This post will help you pick the most effective map type for your data

A visual exploration of a 15th century bookshop

A collaborative project with the University of Oxford

A guide to creating charts and graphs for social media

Learn how to create visually appealing charts for social media using Flourish and Canva

All I want for Christmas… is data 🎵

Using Billboard charts and Google Trends data, we visualized the search trends behind the most streamed Christmas song, “All I Want For Christmas Is You”

Visualizing our 2022 reads

Combining our love for reading with our passion for data visualization

Flourish year in review 2022

Reflecting on a year of growth and collaboration

How to create interactive marimekko charts

Compare magnitude and part-to-whole with our new “Marimekko” template

Enhance your data storytelling with animated charts

Five ways to create animated charts that bring your data to the next level

Seven quick ways to upgrade your data visualizations

Sharing our top tips on how to best use Flourish to create compelling visualizations – without the stress

How to create interactive gauge visualizations

Track everything from KPIs to elections data with our new “Gauge” template

Seven creative data visualization ideas for your World Cup coverage ⚽

Visualizing FIFA World Cup stats, from match history to goals and player info

PDFs are bad for data visualization and storytelling – but what’s the alternative?

The use of PDFs is common among organizations, but they don’t guarantee best results

Four metrics to visualize in your elections coverage

From voting intention to results, learn how you can bring elections data to life with interactive graphics

Why data storytelling is important for your business

How to effectively tell stories with data to convey a meaningful message across your industry

Four data visualization mistakes you’re probably making and how to fix them

How to avoid misleading your readers with your charts

How to plot lines on a map and bring them to life with animation

Visualize everything from railway lines to disputed borders with the new line layer in our “3D map” template

Our “Data explorer” template helps you find the stories in your data – and tell them beautifully

The new template allows you to morph between various chart and map types to create rich and compelling data stories

Bring your text to life with our “Text annotator” template

Adding definitions, explanations and notes to text is now easier than ever

Automated column selection: an easier way of adding data to Flourish

The new data typing feature marks the beginning of a more intuitive data visualization process

AdKaora used Flourish to dynamically power their live marketing platform

How the proximity marketing agency used Flourish to automate and customize their reports

It’s about time: introducing interactive timelines 🕰️

You can now easily create beautiful, responsive and interactive timelines to represent key events over time

Wimbledon in eight charts – from tie breaks to ticket costs 🎾

A visual analysis of the Wimbledon tournament in the Open Era

You can now create beautiful spike maps without coding ⛰️

Our “Projection map” template now includes a new mode to transform points into spikes

Is the UK housing crisis escalating?

Visualizing the increase in average house prices while inflation soars

Unpacking Asia’s complex dynamics with data storytelling

How Kontinentalist uses Flourish to solve technical challenges and promote data literacy

Increasing engagement through data visualization

How to flourish through data storytelling instead of data dashboarding

Three days on safari in data 🦒

Visualizing data on journeys across the Maasai Mara National Reserve

Draw the line: introducing a chart type that invites you to participate

Flourish now makes it easy to create fun and engaging “you draw it”-style line charts

Visualizing air pollution across the world

For this year’s World Health Day, we take a closer look at environmental influences on health

Improving investigative stories through interactive visualization

How Finance Uncovered used Flourish to supercharge their reporting

Five ways to effectively visualize survey responses

On a scale of one to ten, how do you feel about visualizing survey data?

The life and works of Jane Austen – in data 📚

Celebrating one of Britain’s most-loved female authors through visualization

The incredible rise of Wordle – visualized!

Plotting the global success of the viral word puzzle in data graphics

Masters series: John Snow's cholera map

Our series celebrates great visualizers and helps Flourish users follow in their tracks

Bubbles, they bounce! Introducing bubble charts

Make your visualizations pop with our new “Bubble chart” template

Some ready-to-embed visualizations for the Winter Olympics

Creative ideas for visualizing the 2022 Olympics

Some big news: Flourish is now part of the Canva family

Together we will empower the world to design with data – starting with some exciting new offerings for our users

Technical notice of domain change

We’re planning to change some domain names that are used internally by the Flourish editor. This is a technical change that will not affect most Flourish users.

Flourish year in review 2021

Looking back at the year that was – across our community, product and company

Let’s get merging! You can now join datasets more flexibly than ever

Introducing our improved data joining and downloading functionality

Introducing heatmaps, raster tiles and popup panels to our “3D map” template

Our powerful “3D map” template now allows you to transform your points data into animated heatmaps

Visualizing the COP26 climate conference

How our users covered the UN climate change conference

How to make a stunning word cloud in minutes 📖

Our new template makes it simple to create beautiful embeddable word clouds, complete with animation and custom fonts

Masters series: The data visualization legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois

Our series celebrates great visualizers and helps Flourish users follow in their tracks

One dataset, ten visualizations

Exploring the possibilities, strengths and weaknesses of different chart types

How to create beautiful, interactive Gantt charts

Introducing a new Gantt template for project plans and much more

How data visualization can help you communicate effectively

We recreated some of the IPCC's climate charts and this is what we learned

Ready, set, race! How to take your line chart race to the next level

Introducing four new power features to our Line chart race template

A guide to creating compelling visualizations

Introducing a five-step best data practice framework

How to visualize the Olympics

Some ideas and inspiration for creating data graphics about the Tokyo Olympics

Picture it with pictograms

Create beautiful interactive isotype charts with our new template

How to make interactive waterfall charts

Our new chart mode lets you easily create online waterfall charts with a splash of magic

Goaaal! ⚽ Six ways to visualize the Euros

How to create eye-catching countdowns and number tickers without coding

Our new templates make it easy to count up and down to numbers and dates

Six ways to cover elections with interactive graphics

How to make extruded hex maps, card carousels, animated scatter plots and more to enhance your election coverage

Three ways to enhance your data maps with our new line layer feature

The new layer in the “Projection map” template is ideal for drawing borders, physical features and much more

Masters series: Maarten Lambrechts' connected scatter plot

Our series celebrates great visualizers and helps Flourish users follow in their tracks

How to create stunning animated point maps without coding

The updated “3D map” template can animate tens of thousands of dots to show movement over time. Ideal for visualizing transport, logistics and the movement of people.

Introducing popup panels

Our new panel overlay features offer more flexibility to tell rich data stories

Three ways to make your charts more accessible

How to increase impact and engagement by designing for everyone

Masters series: John Burn-Murdoch’s step-by-step animated line chart

Our new series celebrates great visualizers and helps Flourish users follow in their tracks

Flourish year in review 2020

Looking back at a year like no other

New screen-reader settings to make your visualizations more accessible

You can now add a text-based alternative to the visual aspect of your Flourish graphic

Mapping the US presidential election

Some new map features and reusable examples to help you map the biggest political event of 2020

How to make interactive radar charts – and why you should try “stellar charts” instead

Our new template makes it easy to create online radar or spider charts. It also supports new star-shaped alternatives.

Streamgraphs: how to make them and what you need to know

You can now easily make interactive streamgraphs without coding

Make explorable and animated charts with our new filters and controls

The “Line, bar, pie” template now offers a range of new ways to make charts your readers can search, explore or play through time

You can now add regions to your high-performance WebGL-based data maps

Our powerful 3D map templates support regions in addition to points, timelines and basemaps

From today, you can organize your Flourish projects into folders 🗂 🎉

The new folder system makes it much easier to manage your saved visualizations and stories

You can now create live visualizations from an online CSV or Google Sheet

Introducing Flourish’s latest feature: the ability to pull data from a remote source and republish graphics automatically when it changes

Introducing the Flourish heatmap template 🔥

You can now easily make interactive mobile-friendly heatmap charts, complete with filters and animations

Technical notice of domain change

We’re planning to move the files that are used by published projects to a different domain. This is a technical change that will not affect most Flourish users.

Free regularly updated Covid-19 visualizations to embed

A collection of mobile-friendly graphics about the coronavirus crisis

How Code for Africa created the Bubble Network template

A Q&A with CfA’s head of data about developing custom Flourish templates

Flourish year in review 2019

#madewithFlourish2019

Introducing beeswarms 🐝, violin plots 🎻 and WebGL charts ⚡️

The latest version of our popular Scatter template adds both features and firepower

UK general election: live maps and charts

These maps and charts are freely available for anyone to embed. They live-updated throughout election night.

Make your own general election data graphics

How to make hex maps, beeswarms and more for the 2019 UK general election

Nueve ideas para hacer gráficos en elecciones

Los mejores consejos para enriquecer tu cobertura electoral con Flourish

Elevate your visual storytelling with our flexible “Cards” template

Easily create content blocks for landing pages with this highly customizable Flourish template

Never fear, unpivoting is here

How to combine columns into long format using Flourish’s latest data table feature

How to create an interactive map story

See how we visualized the jaw-dropping rise of Airbnb in Istanbul using our interactive 3D map template

Visualize large geographic datasets with the “3D map” template

Plot thousands of points over time, anywhere in the world, with our latest mapping template

How Sky News revealed Flourish’s secret scrollytelling feature

A Q&A with the data journalist and the developer

(Ar)row row row your plot 🏹

You can now create interactive animated arrow plots to show the direction of change on a scatter chart or dot plot

How to make a line chart race visualization

Move over bars, lines can race too!

How to make animated Sankey charts and alluvial diagrams

Our “Sankey” template lets you create stunning sankey and alluvial diagrams that help you visualize flow

The lands and battles of Game of Thrones. Mapped!

A Song of Flourish and Ice: mapping and visualizing Game of Thrones data

Ten ways to visualize elections data

Top tips for bringing your election coverage to life with Flourish

How to make “bar chart race” visualizations without coding

Animated bar charts are taking social media by storm. You can now make one in seconds by uploading a spreadsheet to Flourish.

Pokémon GO data visualization with Flourish

A few examples of using Flourish for a data-rich hobby

It’s time to talk about tables

Five situations where it makes sense to use an interactive table instead of a conventional visualization – and how to make them in Flourish

Announcing 3D region maps

Use elevation levels to visualize geographic data

Why data visualization needs a play button

Audio can enrich visual storytelling and bridge the gap between the exploration and explanation of data. You can now make audio-driven visualizations, or “Talkies”, without coding. Click play to learn more!

Which American city has the worst winter weather?

As the polar vortex hits the northern United States, we dig into the data

Introducing interactive “drill down” bar charts

A new feature in our Hierarchy template produces explorable interactive bar charts from raw data

Marker maps, icon maps, locator maps, symbol maps, emoji maps…

Whatever you call them, they’re easy to make with our new Flourish template

Announcing arc maps

Visualize any kind of geographic flows with our new template

Why chart legends suck and what to use instead

Combining legends with titles makes your visualizations simpler and more impactful – and it’s now super easy in Flourish

You can now make data-driven maps using custom boundaries, without coding

With the new “Projection map” you're no longer limited to the existing map regions; you can upload new geographies in GeoJSON format and join data to them

Seven ways to visualize the US midterms with Flourish

Flourish helps you get through election night with these free templates to use in your coverage before, during and after the vote.

How to visualize hierarchical data: zoomable sunbursts, packed circles and treemaps

Flourish’s new Hierarchy template makes it possible to produce three types of zoomable graphics from a simple spreadsheet

How Business users can manage their teams and protect their data

Flourish's new company pages and approval workflows give Business users full control over users and access

New! Tools to help you use color effectively in your visualizations

Introducing the new Palette menu and other tools to give you full control over colors in your Flourish visualizations

Flourish chord diagrams

Easily visualize connections with our new chord chart template

Customising fonts and colors in story navigation bars

Business and newsroom users can now customize the controls in Flourish stories

How to create a parliament chart in Flourish

Visualize election results with our new parliament chart template

Fun with Flourish – how popular was your name in Victorian Britain?

We've built a tool with the University of Edinburgh to let you see how popular your name was in Victorian Britain

How to make box plots in Flourish

Learn how to make box plots and whisker diagrams to better explore the distribution of your data

GEN Summit 2018 on Twitter

Live tweet monitor from GEN Summit in Lisbon

Introducing Flourish treemap visualizations

Our new template makes it easy to create beautiful, responsive, animated treemaps

Now you can create and publish Vega-Lite charts in Flourish

Our new template makes it easy to publish charts using Vega-Lite configuration

OpenVis 18 on Twitter

Live tweet monitor from OpenVis Paris

Ahead of next week’s local elections, a look at London’s voting patterns

Our new ward-level maps of London reveal voting patterns from the last elections, and are easy for journalists to adapt and embed

Visualizing the extraordinarily complex structure of modern corporations

Exploring the ownership structures of UK companies with Flourish’s new network graph visualizations

Finding climate change buried in 500 million data points

This interactive Flourish map, made by trawling a huge database of daily weather records, puts 2018’s freezing winter in the context of global warming

Public launch! 🚀🚀🚀

From today anyone can sign up and start producing visualizations and stories

Flourish wins GEN Startups for News

Media-sector prize awarded at the GEN Summit 2017 in Vienna

Flourish + Google = free for newsrooms!

We’re partnering with Google News Lab to provide free team accounts to journalists

Announcing our fundraise and developer launch

Developers can now make their own Flourish templates

Shipmap wins at IIB Awards

Kiln project wins Gold at the 2016 Information Is Beautiful Awards

Flourish press begins

The word is beginning to get out there 🗣

Flourish at Founders Forum

Flourish one of the “rising stars” at London tech conference

Data Journalism Unconference

Flourish prototype gets first public outing at NYC data journalism event

Hello world!

Announcing Flourish, a new tool for data visualization and other interactive content