Line, bar and pie charts – an overview
What can this template do?
It can visualize everything from ranking to distribution, from magnitude to change over time and parts to a whole. If you’re not sure what your data is showing or how best to visualize it, loading it into this template and trying out different chart types is a great first step.
How to get started
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- The first thing you need is a CSV or Excel file of your data
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- Make sure that there’s a column containing labels for each instance of data, like years or Premier League football teams. In a line, bar or area chart, these will become the values or categories along the x-axis. In a pie chart, they’ll become the slices.
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As a default, Flourish assumes the first column, A, holds the labels and the the rest of the columns hold the different series. But if your CSV or Excel file isn’t in this order you can easily change this on the Select columns to visualise panel, under the Data tab.
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What your data should look like:
Year | London | Paris | Berlin |
2010 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
2020 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
Once you've input your data, you should be able to see a preview of your chart in the bottom right corner. If you switch back into the Preview tab now, you can tweak the styles of your chart.