Visualizing Animated Data with Flourish#

You’ll learn how to create and customize animations in Flourish, covering:

• Core Animation Principles: Understand how to use animation to both engage and inform, and learn the concept of “object constancy” to turn data visualizations into compelling data stories.
• Configuring Race Charts: Master the animation controls for Line Chart Races and Bar Chart Races, including setting durations for timelines, transitions, and individual stages.
• Morphing Between Chart Types: Learn to use the Line Bar Pie template to create seamless morphing transitions between different chart types (e.g., line to streamgraph) within a Flourish story.
• Animating Scatter Plots: Discover how to set up and control animations in scatter plots, including using the “Animation stagger” setting to create dynamic, cascading dot movements.
• Controlling Animation Logic: Understand how to manage animations for both related and unrelated datasets by toggling the “Only animate series with same name” option.
• Animation in Other Templates: Get an overview of the animation settings available in various other templates, including Survey, Heatmap, Spider, and Hierarchy charts.
• Advanced Data Explorer Animations: Learn about the powerful Data Explorer template (an Enterprise feature) and its ability to create advanced animations, such as morphing dots from a survey layout into their corresponding locations on a projection map.