Flourish Studio Masterclass : Create Animated Visualizations

Sign up for Flourish Studio by entering email, username, and password, and agreeing to terms. Then take the tour to learn creating visualizations, stories, and a dashboard.

Explore the Flourish Studio homescreen interface, manage projects and folders, and create visualizations or stories. Learn how to publish, share, duplicate, and view published versions for embedding.

Create your first Flourish visualization by selecting a template and using the editor’s preview, data table, and column settings to customize and publish or export.

Choose a visualization, inspect the default data to understand required structure, then upload, paste, or edit data, swap rows and columns, and download or export as needed.

Learn column bindings in Flourish Studio Masterclass to map data columns to labels, time, and values, and create single or drill charts with custom popups.

Learn to merge two datasets in flourish templates by matching the join columns, handling unmatched rows, and creating a merged dataset for visualizations with bar charts, filters, and popups.

Explore Flourish Studio templates to create bar, line, pie, and donut charts, transform between chart types, input data with labels, and tailor styles for dynamic visualizations.

Explore how to customize chart visuals using the north wind sample data by adjusting chart types, bindings, height, sorting, filters, colors, and axes.

Explore how to customize chart look and feel by adjusting the plot background, number and date formatting, legend, popups, and annotations.

Explore animation settings for charts, including duration, on load and data change animations for line and bar charts, and tailor layout, fonts, colors, borders, and accessibility options.

Master the table visualization template with search, filters, borders, and sortable columns, and learn to combine bar and line charts within a table for clear data storytelling.

Explore how to build interactive hierarchy visualizations using tree maps, sunburst, radial partitions, and bar charts, with long format data, pivoting, and customizable labels, colors, and zoom.

Create a two dimensional scatterplot in Flourish Studio, a versatile template for scatterplot bubble charts, with color, size, and shape encoding and interactive popups.

Explore diverse scatterplot variations, including small plots, bubble charts colored by a variable, box and swarm plots, animated Hans Rosling charts, and colorful scatter options from a single starting point.

Create map charts with projection and 3D maps in Flourish Studio, shading regions, adding data, popups and values, and animating geographic data for engaging visuals.

Explore the survey chart, an interactive visualization that animates dots into groups and bars. Group by gender, age, or animals you like, then compare responses and weights.

Create and customize a Gantt chart by binding start and end dates, task names, and categories, then tailor colors, labels, and x-axis formatting while previewing data and applying filters.

Create a radar chart in Flourish Studio to compare attributes across entities using names and at least three value columns on a common scale, with filters and a clickable legend.

Create rich, animated data narratives with Flourish stories by linking multiple visualizations from a common template, adding annotations, and animating between views for engaging, web-based presentations.

Publish your Flourish visualization to a public page, then republish after edits; download HTML or images, and share or embed with a link back to Flourish.

Explore Flourish embed options, compare script embed, mp/amp, and iframe methods, and learn to publish and embed responsive, interactive visualizations on websites and blogs.

Learn how to delete projects, visualizations, and stories by first unpublishing items that are published, and remove dependencies by deleting stories before their associated visualizations.

Learn how to control access to visualizations and stories across free and business accounts, including publishing options, duplicate and edit buttons, and password-protected sharing.

Learn how to create videos or gifs from Flourish visualizations by capturing screen footage, resizing the story, and recording interactions, noting there is no built-in export from Flourish.

Publish the visualization, append the word thumbnail to its link, and save the resulting image locally; this works only for standalone visualizations and reflects the latest published version.

Explore Flourish Studio's customizable color palettes, edit palettes, add or delete colors, and apply custom overrides to visualizations using the colors dropdown.

Learn to display your Flourish published projects on your public profile by enabling 'My published projects' in profile settings, then share, embed, or allow others to view and duplicate them.

Add social icons in the footer by linking your website and social profiles, such as Twitter and Facebook, via the photo section. Publish to see clickable links in Flourish pages.

Identify what your data communicates to select the right visualization template. Match change over time, parts of the whole, correlation, ranking, distribution, and geospatial goals with Flourish templates.

Learn a five-step framework for data storytelling that emphasizes context, story, choosing the right chart type, clean and structured data, thoughtful color and labeling, and accessibility to communicate insights clearly.

Discover data sources to start visualizing in Flourish Studio, including weather data, open data portals, government datasets, sample datasets, and tools like Kaggle and Google Trends.

Discover Flourish resources for learning and inspiration, including templates, dashboards, help guides, newsletters, webinars, and tutorials to support ongoing data visualization projects.

Celebrate completing the Flourish Studio Masterclass and explore animations, beautiful charts, and features for creating animated visualizations. Share your Flourish stories or visualizations and ask questions about the course content.