How to create interactive gauge visualizations Track everything from KPIs to elections data with our new “Gauge” template Posted on 04 November 2022 by Luisa Bider
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 Posted on 01 September 2022 by Luisa Bider
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 Posted on 08 August 2022 by Mafe Callejón
Bring your text to life with our “Text annotator” template Adding definitions, explanations and notes to text is now easier than ever Posted on 25 July 2022 by Simona Tselova and Luisa Bider
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 Posted on 14 July 2022 by Simona Tselova
It’s about time: introducing interactive timelines 🕰️ You can now easily create beautiful, responsive and interactive timelines to represent key events over time Posted on 01 July 2022 by Simona Tselova
You can now create beautiful spike maps without coding ⛰️ Our “Projection map” template now includes a new mode to transform points into spikes Posted on 20 June 2022 by Mafe Callejón and Simona Tselova
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 Posted on 26 April 2022 by Luisa Bider
Bubbles, they bounce! Introducing bubble charts Make your visualizations pop with our new “Bubble chart” template Posted on 18 February 2022 by Simona Tselova
Let’s get merging! You can now join datasets more flexibly than ever Introducing our improved data joining and downloading functionality Posted on 14 December 2021 by Ilias Stathatos and Luisa Bider
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 Posted on 24 November 2021 by Luisa Bider
Introducing word clouds 📖 Our new template makes it simple to create beautiful embeddable word clouds, complete with animation and custom fonts Posted on 22 October 2021 by Ilias Stathatos
How to create beautiful, interactive Gantt charts Introducing a new Gantt template for project plans and much more Posted on 09 September 2021 by Olivia Lawlor
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 Posted on 16 August 2021 by Olivia Lawlor
Picture it with pictograms Create beautiful interactive isotype charts with our new template Posted on 09 July 2021 by Luisa Bider and Duncan Clark
How to make interactive waterfall charts Our new chart mode lets you easily create online waterfall charts with a splash of magic Posted on 05 July 2021 by Helena Robertson
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 Posted on 27 May 2021 by Luisa Bider
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 Posted on 22 April 2021 by Helena Robertson
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. Posted on 11 March 2021 by Duncan Clark
Introducing popup panels Our new panel overlay features offer more flexibility to tell rich data stories Posted on 04 March 2021 by Luisa Bider
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 Posted on 18 November 2020 by Luisa Bider
Stop hesitating, start annotating Introducing Flourish drag-and-drop annotations to help your graphics tell better stories Posted on 17 November 2020 by Luisa Bider
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. Posted on 21 October 2020 by Duncan Clark
Streamgraphs: how to make them and what you need to know You can now easily make interactive streamgraphs without coding Posted on 19 October 2020 by Luisa Bider
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 Posted on 11 September 2020 by Duncan Clark
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 Posted on 10 September 2020 by Luisa Bider
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 Posted on 02 September 2020 by Bobby Sebolao
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 Posted on 21 July 2020 by Luisa Bider
Introducing the Flourish heatmap template 🔥 You can now easily make interactive mobile-friendly heatmap charts, complete with filters and animations Posted on 16 July 2020 by Luisa Bider
Introducing beeswarms 🐝, violin plots 🎻 and WebGL charts ⚡️ The latest version of our popular Scatter template adds both features and firepower Posted on 03 December 2019 by Katherine Riley
Announcing the Cards template Easily visualize blocks of content in a grid or carousel with our new template Posted on 17 October 2019 by Sarah Soutoul
Never fear, unpivoting is here How to combine columns into long format using Flourish’s latest data table feature Posted on 15 October 2019 by Katherine Riley
Visualize large geographic datasets with the “3D map” template Plot thousands of points over time, anywhere in the world, with our latest mapping template Posted on 08 October 2019 by Katherine Riley
(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 Posted on 27 August 2019 by Katherine Riley
How to make a line chart race visualization Move over bars, lines can race too! Posted on 15 July 2019 by Duncan Clark
How to make animated Sankey charts Flourish Sankey and alluvial diagrams now have flowing animations Posted on 12 July 2019 by Duncan Clark
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. Posted on 21 March 2019 by Katherine Riley
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 Posted on 11 March 2019 by Katherine Riley
Announcing 3D region maps Use elevation levels to visualize geographic data Posted on 18 February 2019 by Katherine Riley
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! Posted on 07 February 2019 by Duncan Clark
Introducing interactive “drill down” bar charts A new feature in our Hierarchy template produces explorable interactive bar charts from raw data Posted on 18 December 2018 by Duncan Clark
Marker maps, icon maps, locator maps, symbol maps, emoji maps… Whatever you call them, they’re easy to make with our new Flourish template Posted on 11 December 2018 by Katherine Riley and Duncan Clark
Announcing arc maps Visualize any kind of geographic flows with our new template Posted on 16 November 2018 by Katherine Riley
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 Posted on 15 November 2018 by Katherine Riley
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 Posted on 23 October 2018 by Flourish team
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 Posted on 20 September 2018 by Duncan Clark
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 Posted on 24 August 2018 by Anna Powell-Smith
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 Posted on 21 August 2018 by Tim Brock
How to make a Sankey or alluvial diagram in Flourish Our updated Sankey template adds a lot more features for visualizing flows Posted on 10 August 2018 by Duncan Clark
Flourish chord diagrams Easily visualize connections with our new chord chart template Posted on 25 July 2018 by Julien Assouline
Customising fonts and colors in story navigation bars Business and newsroom users can now customize the controls in Flourish stories Posted on 10 July 2018 by Duncan Clark
How to create a parliament chart in Flourish Visualize election results with our new parliament chart template Posted on 06 July 2018 by Julien Assouline
How to make box plots in Flourish Explore the distribution of your data with box-and-whisker diagrams Posted on 22 June 2018 by Anna Powell-Smith
Introducing Flourish treemap visualizations Our new template makes it easy to create beautiful, responsive, animated treemaps Posted on 30 May 2018 by Duncan Clark
Now you can create and publish Vega-Lite charts in Flourish Our new template makes it easy to publish charts using Vega-Lite configuration Posted on 29 May 2018 by Anna Powell-Smith
