Flourish
Videos to Get Started:
Alberto Cairo and Flourish - Overview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN1Q9MusZbc
Overview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKO_jjqgooc&feature=emb_title
Ravi Brock and Flourish in 9 mins
https://video.uark.edu/media/Flourish+tutorial+with+Ravi+Brock/1_g6nzw3h0
Cairo - Flourish - Stories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7AmUdSBOVU
Alberto Cairo, Flourish Tutorials, Parts 1-6
https://www.youtube.com/user/albertocairo1706/videos
Beginning Documents
Basic Tips:
--It's all about the templates. Select the one that best matches your idea
--Do your math, sorting, formatting in Excel before uploading to Flourish. Easier
--There are hidden menus and functions in the data section. A bit frustrating but you will figure it out.
Intro
https://help.flourish.studio/article/9-creating-a-visualization
Stories in Flourish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HTZUXNOLVQ&feature=emb_rel_end
Importing Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rscfi7QZVvs&feature=emb_rel_end https://help.flourish.studio/article/12-adding-data-to-a-template
Flourish Design Tips
--Labels: be judicious with text labels.
--Annotations.
Within Flourish story: Once you're finished creating your visualization, click on the "Create story" button in the top right corner. This will take you through to a new Flourish story with your visualization as the first slide.
https://help.flourish.studio/article/89-how-to-create-a-single-slide-story-in-flourish
too many numbers on the labels, so think of using annotations to fix that issue.
https://help.flourish.studio/article/180-how-to-add-annotations-to-your-visualization#:~:text=Inside%20the%20story%20editor%2C%20you,an%20annotation%20will%20be%20added.
--Colors:
https://help.flourish.studio/article/91-how-to-customize-colors#:~:text=The%20main%20color%20tool%20in,delete%20and%20add%20new%20colors.
--Sorting: have the chart tell a story - sorting.
--X axis labels. rotate the x axis labels, drop the font a bit and get more of the counties represented. bump up the fonts on the x axis. rather faint.
--Delete rows "missing county info"
--Labels: "become the boss of this data." we take control of these ridiculous labels. what is "administrative support and waste management and remediation services" - what does that mean?
--Style: your credit at the bottom in the footer
Work with this version: https://app.flourish.studio/story/775979/edit
More Resources
Bar chart race template
https://towardsdatascience.com/step-by-step-tutorial-create-a-bar-chart-race-animation-da7d5fcd7079
https://help.flourish.studio/article/63-how-to-change-label-positioning
Misc
Google sheets https://help.flourish.studio/article/165-how-to-pull-through-data-from-a-google-sheet
Basic Help page
https://help.flourish.studio/
Content to popups
https://help.flourish.studio/article/69-how-to-add-custom-content-to-your-popups
Overview
https://flourish.studio/2019/12/19/2019-year-in-review/
Spanish https://flourish.studio/2019/10/23/informar-elecciones-con-flourish/
Different accounts https://help.flourish.studio/article/16-controling-access-to-visualizations-and-stories
Sorting data https://help.flourish.studio/article/36-how-to-display-your-data-in-a-different-order
Adam Marton Cheat Sheet
Flourish.studio
Examples:
https://flourish.studio/examples/
*** Graphic stories and animated stories
See the slider at the top of this page for examples of graphic stories and animation
Bar chart race
Animated dot animation
Animated charts
Story maps
Animated maps
Templates from Flourish Team: (more examples)
https://app.flourish.studio/@flourish
Interesting examples:
Time map - map with time slider
Twitter timelines - good for events
Election results chart
Icon map
Photo slider
Sankey - 2
Table
Parliament “C” chart - useful for showing votes on an issue, more
Sports - player positions on a field
Chord diagram- visualize connections between entities
Survey / Dot viz (good for exploring survey results and more)
Arc map - display connections between points on a map
Cards - 2 - blocks in a grid (candidates, much more)
Quiz
Bar race / Line race
Point map - 2 - visualize large data sets on a map, animate around it
Animated scatterplot
Elections | Elections 2
Background: Flourish newsrooms plan
Private projects, HTML export and much more!
Get started here
In case your account has administrative privileges for your newsroom, you will be able to invite more users to your newsroom. You can find more information on how to do that and how to administer your newsroom here.
Our extensive help docs are carefully crafted to help you overcome the occasional issue you may run into, and also show you how to create cool things.
You can find them here.
Keep track of how Flourish is constantly improving and new features are being added through our new changelog.
If you want to see what we did – and what users like you made – in 2019, take a look at our Year in Review blog post!
As an extra, for our Spanish-speaking users, we've also recently published our popular elections blog post – in Spanish! Check it out here!
Flourish - Stories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7AmUdSBOVU
Intro
https://help.flourish.studio/article/9-creating-a-visualization
How to Create a Flourish Chart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKO_jjqgooc&feature=emb_title
Bar chart race template
https://towardsdatascience.com/step-by-step-tutorial-create-a-bar-chart-race-animation-da7d5fcd7079
https://help.flourish.studio/article/63-how-to-change-label-positioning
Survey template- break out to different groups, histogram or a map
Tables with sparklines
Mobile settings
Part 5 Scatter plot and animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XehZFhNt8mw
Part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/user/albertocairo1706/videos
Examples from Fall Class
Flourish So Far
Abby:
https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/3936735/
https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/3941284/
Kendal:
https://app.flourish.studio/visualisation/3923703/
Part 3 Basic world Map
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfoGkoqmvqY
Create an Active and New Cases Map:
https://app.flourish.studio/visualisation/3967148/edit
Click data.
On the Regions layer, upload “arkansascounties.json” which is found in Teams files or on Github: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Arkansascovid/Main/master/arkansascounties.json
Click the arrow button next to “Upload data” and select “Upload data and merge”, then upload countyonlytoday.csv and merge on “NAME” and “County_Name”, 76 rows should be imported
Geometry should be column A. Name should be column G. Select Active_cases, Active_cases_10k_pop, Confirmed_active, Probable_active, New_cases_today, New_cases_today_10k_pop, Pct_pos_new_to_dashboard (columns U,AV,AE-AF,AO,AU,AX) for the values.
Make sure no counties are missing/greyed out on map
In top right corner, select Export & Publish
Flourish Links
https://app.flourish.studio/projects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HTZUXNOLVQ&feature=emb_rel_end
https://help.flourish.studio/article/16-controling-access-to-visualizations-and-stories
https://help.flourish.studio/
https://flourish.studio/whats-new/
https://flourish.studio/2019/12/19/2019-year-in-review/
https://flourish.studio/2019/10/23/informar-elecciones-con-flourish/
https://help.flourish.studio/article/16-controling-access-to-visualizations-and-stories
https://help.flourish.studio/category/42-line-bar-and-pie-charts/2?sort=updatedAt
https://help.flourish.studio/article/107-how-to-create-a-scatter-plot-with-a-filter
https://help.flourish.studio/category/10-flourish-basics
https://app.flourish.studio/visualisation/4080552/edit
https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/4080552/
