What is a beeswarm plot? A guide to showing distributions

Beeswarm plots make it possible to see the shape of a distribution and every individual data point at the same time

6 ways to save time with AI in Flourish

A practical look at the Flourish Assistant and Connector — from data wrangling to custom popup design

Introducing the Flourish Assistant and Connector

A new way to create with AI, in Flourish and beyond

Dot plot vs scatter plot: Everything you need to know

Learn the key distinctions and how to pick the right chart for your data

What great scrollytelling looks like — and how to build it yourself

Discover scrollytelling examples and how Flourish makes scrollytelling possible without writing a single line of code

Grouped bar charts: What they are and when to use them

A clear guide to comparing categories side by side, and how to build them in Flourish

What are radial hierarchy charts and how to create one (with examples)

Understand how radial charts work – explore radial trees, sunburst diagrams, and when to use each

8 types of charts you need to master data visualization

A beginner-friendly guide on what each chart shows, how to read it, and how to make it clearer

How to use radar charts for clear, insightful data stories

Learn when radar charts work, when they mislead, and how to create clearer alternatives with Flourish

Bar graph vs line graph: how to choose the right chart

A clear breakdown of when to use bar graphs versus line graphs — and how to choose the right one for your data.

After 3,000+ charts, here’s why I trust Flourish for interactive data stories

Why I think Flourish is the best data visualization tool for newsrooms

How to grab attention with data – my checklist for interactive storytelling

What 3000 charts taught me about creating engaging visualizations

Visualize the World Cup: 15 charts to power your football coverage

From fixtures to player stats, build interactive football visuals for every stage of the tournament

In memory of Mark Longair

Sales reporting: how to create interactive sales reports that drive business decisions

A practical approach to sales reporting that leadership teams rely on

Dual axis charts: why they spark debate, and how to get them right

A closer look at how dual axis charts work, the ways they can mislead, and the moments when they genuinely reveal useful insights

Drive engagement: a guide to transforming charts with filters

Reveal insights and comparisons in your data by adding interactive filters to your Flourish visualizations

How AI can help you make better charts

Learn six practical ways to leverage AI for data visualization

Beyond the Numbers: data that connects starts with storytelling

Takeaways from Canva’s new report to elevate how your business works with data

A marketer’s guide to data storytelling: from insight to impact

Showcase results, identify trends, and get buy-in with visualizations that speak louder than numbers

From numbers to narrative: smarter ways to share sales performance

Learn how to turn sales metrics into clear, useful stories that drive action

Eurovision through the years: a charted history of music’s biggest contest

Explore the history and trends of Eurovision, illustrated in 9 comprehensive charts

Big news: Two new ways to tell better stories with your data 🎉

Introducing ‘Start with data’ and a refreshed Flourish app in Canva

Linear vs logarithmic: choosing the right scale for your story

Discover when to use linear or logarithmic scales to bring clarity to your data and tell a stronger story

4 powerful ways nonprofits use data visualization to share their stories

Learn how nonprofits are transforming complex data into compelling visual stories using Flourish

Flourish: Your data, beautifully told

Our refreshed brand embodies what we stand for – human, truth and magic

The Eras Tour in charts: visualizing Taylor Swift’s record journey

Unpacking the tour’s milestones and global impact through data storytelling

Grid maps: where charts meet maps for easy data comparison

Explore small multiples like never before and discover a better way to compare regional data

Visualizing 100 years of US elections with interactive maps

Explore how political landscapes shifted over the last century with dynamic visualizations

16 ways to visualize US elections data

Master every stage of election reporting with our guide to visualizing US election data: from predictions to post-vote insights

How to create animated 3D point maps without coding

Animate thousands of data points to show movement over time in a dynamic and engaging way

8 easy ways to visualize financial market data

Bring clarity to complex financial data with interactive data visualizations

Rethinking chart legends: when and how to use them?

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

Organize, centralize, and collaborate with shared folders 🗂

The new folder system brings a level of simplicity and collaboration to managing your team’s projects

How to identify trends and patterns with data visualization

Discover five engaging chart types to show the story behind your data, from dynamic bump charts to informative scatter plots

Daring to diverge: Flourish and WPP’s journey in data storytelling

Uncover the process behind creating engaging and interactive visualizations that push the boundaries of conventional data design

A visual exploration of gender inequality statistics in 2024

Visualizing the gender divide from the classroom to the boardroom

How to visualize the Olympics

Exploring the evolution, achievements, and highlights of the Winter and Summer Olympics through data visualization

9 ways to transform text and images into interactive visualizations

From cards and quizzes to photo sliders and timelines, Flourish helps you turn any qualitative data into stunning pieces of content

Explore the data behind the Nobel Prize in 7 interactive charts

Revealing patterns in gender, age, and nationality of prize winners through data visualization

5 pitfalls to avoid when working with color in data visualization

Mastering color theory for impactful data storytelling

How we’re making Flourish visualizations more accessible

Explore our latest updates and learn about our commitment to accessibility

Explore the world in data: introducing the 3D Globe

Redefine the way you tell stories about the world with our new 3D Globe template

Unlock powerful collaboration with sharing permissions in Flourish

Take control of your visualizations and stories for seamless teamwork

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

8 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: visualizing migration trends

We looked at the latest migration data 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 premium template, perfect for creating powerful, embeddable calculators – with Google Sheets integration

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

7 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

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

4 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

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

How to avoid misleading your readers with your charts

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: bring history to life with interactive timelines 🕰️

Design beautiful, responsive and interactive timelines that represent key events over time and captivate your audience

Wimbledon in 8 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

3 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

5 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: Recreating John Snow's cholera map

See an interactive version of John Snow's iconic cholera map

Bubbles, they bounce! Introducing bubble charts

Make your visualizations pop with our new Bubble Chart template

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 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

Step-by-step guide on creating visualizatins inspired by Du Bois

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

A guide to creating compelling visualizations

Introducing a five-step best data practice framework

Create interactive pictograms without coding

Create beautiful and interactive isotype charts with our Pictogram template

How to make interactive waterfall charts

Easily create online waterfall charts that excel in visualizing financial insights

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

Decoding UK elections with interactive visualizations

Explore 6 ways to visualize political shifts with Flourish's versatile templates, from polling insights to post-election breakdowns

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

Visualize everything from railway lines to disputed borders with the line layers in our map templates

Masters series: Maarten Lambrechts' connected scatter plot

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

3 reasons why your charts need popups and panels

The Flourish tooltip and panel overlay features offer more flexibility to tell rich data stories

3 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

We replicated John Burn-Murdoch’s animated line chart in Flourish, showcasing a compelling illustration of data storytelling

Flourish year in review 2020

Looking back at a year like no other

How to make your visualizations more accessible with good alternative descriptions

Add text-based screenreader descriptions to the visual aspect of your Flourish graphics

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

Streamgraphs effectively showcase data trends and patterns, and with Flourish, crafting one is easy and code-free

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

Our powerful 3D Map template support regions in addition to points, timelines and basemaps

Unlock smarter decisions and enhance insights with live data visualizations

Explore the benefits of creating real-time charts and maps from CSVs and Google Sheets

Unveiling patterns: how to master interactive heatmaps with Flourish 🔥

Explore heatmap examples, from climate science to market trends

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

9 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 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

Ready, set, race! How to make a line chart race visualization without coding

The Line Chart Race template offers a dynamic perspective of your data, where every point tells a story

How to make animated Sankey charts and alluvial diagrams

Our Sankey Diagram 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

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

When tables are the most effective form of data visualization

7 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

How to create stunning marker maps: dot maps, locator maps, and more

Visualize data with icons, emojis and images for a more engaging user experience

Announcing arc maps

Visualize any kind of geographic flows with our new template

Your ultimate guide to creating custom maps with Flourish

With our Projection Map template, you can upload new geographies and customize them

How to visualize hierarchical data with Flourish

From treemaps to radial trees, Flourish’s Hierarchy template makes it possible to produce five types of zoomable graphics without coding

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

How to create interactive chord diagrams

Easily visualize connections with our Chord Diagram template

Customising fonts and colors in story navigation bars

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

How to create interactive parliament charts in Flourish

Effortlessly visualize election results with our interactive 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

Box plots: what are they and how to build one without coding

Use our box and whisker plot template to better explore the distribution of your data

GEN Summit 2018 on Twitter

Live tweet monitor from GEN Summit in Lisbon

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

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

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