Flourish
A tool for building animated charts and infographics from data sets.
Where Flourish comes up1 episode or test
- 1Start with a data setData alone is enough
- 2Flourish animates itNo Python or R coding
- 3Get infographic in minutesOne image can tell a decades-long story
- 4Lead tweet with graphicStriking statistic first, link below
From Steph Smith
What was said about Flourish
Flourish turns a data set into a moving infographic in minutes. Steph Smith notes that animated infographics once meant coding the motion in Python or R. With Flourish, a data set is enough to produce one in minutes.
Smith uses this as support for leading a tweet with a striking statistic or graphic instead of the link. Her point is that the right data point or infographic can compress a multi-decade story into one image. The example cited is Derek Thompson promoting a loneliness essay with the key statistic and a screenshot, with the link below.
How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably | Steph Smith | How I Write Podcast
Moving infographics can now be built in minutes from a data set, work that once required coding the motion in Python or R.
Flourish turns a data set into a moving infographic in minutes. Steph Smith notes that animated infographics once meant coding the motion in Python or R. With Flourish, a data set is enough to produce one in minutes.
Smith uses this as support for leading a tweet with a striking statistic or graphic instead of the link. Her point is that the right data point or infographic can compress a multi-decade story into one image. The example cited is Derek Thompson promoting a loneliness essay with the key statistic and a screenshot, with the link below.
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