Create interactive charts to tell your story more effectively

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It’s time to stop thinking about charts as boring, black and white, 2D boxes buried in a sea of text. Anytime you need to grab your audience’s attention (and keep it) Infogram allows you to become a visual storyteller. Create a chart for any of the following:

1. Business reports and presentations

2. Blog posts

3. News articles

4. Research article

5. Social media profiles

6. Marketing campaigns

7. Landing pages

8. eBooks and long-form content

9. Presentations

10. Any other pivotal marketing or communication channels

The first question you should always ask yourself is whether visualizing your data is really necessary. Would it make the story easier to understand? Does it provide context? Is it relevant?

Including a visualization just for the sake of it can be confusing and reduce the impact of your story. Remember that bad data visualization can be worse than none at all.

It’s important to choose the right kind of graph to visualize your data. Here you will find a brief summary of various types of graphs and when it’s best to use what.

Take into account! Make your visualizations as simple and clean as possible, it makes them much easier to understand and usually more visually appealing. Keep the ‘data to ink ratio’ in mind – if you had to print your visualization try and show as much information as possible using the least ink. View more

Infogram has made this easy with five steps:

1. Log in to Infogram

2. Select a chart type from the chart menu.

3. Upload or copy and paste your data.

4. Customize your look/feel with labels, colors, fonts, and graphics.

5. Download your chart as an image, or embed it on your website.

No need to create code… ever. We took the technical steps away to allow you to be creative and engage with your audience. View more

Each chart comes pre-populated with sample data to show how data should be formatted when it's inserted into the chart. To add data to a chart you can:

1. Copy and paste

2. Import via integrations

To add data by copying and pasting:

1. Click the Add chart icon on the left side panel and select the chart you wish to use. 

 A. Drag and drop it into the editor. 

 B. Double-click to access the chart's data table. 

2. Select a cell and start typing or use keyboard controls:
 

 A. CTRL/CMD+C to copy

 B. CTRL/CMD+X to cut 

 C. CTRL/CMD+V to paste

 D. CTRL/CMD+z to undo the last edit
 

3. Right-click a cell to access a menu with styling options. View more

Customize charts to look just the way you want them to! Chart settings are located in the right sidebar of the editor.

After adding a chart to your project, select it once to access chart settings. Use tabs at the top to switch between the data table and settings.

Here you can add animation to your chart, as well as edit (click on hyperlinked settings to be redirected to tutorial articles):

1. Chart properties

2. Color

3. Axis and grid

4. Fonts

5. Legend

6. Tooltips

7. Data format

8. Accessibility

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Infogram offers you a variety of additional settings for customizing charts and displaying your data.

By default, charts automatically assign an axis range, starting from 0, up to the maximum value. If your data values are large, it might be hard to compare the differences between elements. Having the axis starting point from a different value will make the distinctions between elements more obvious.

To adjust the chart axis:

1. Click to select your chart, then expand the Axis & Grid tab in the right sidebar.

2. Enter the axis start and/or end values to adjust the axis range.

You can also add labels to the axes and enable or disable gridlines in the chart background. Grids can make your data easier to follow, but can also be distracting in some situations. Use grids if the value of each specific data point is important.

Enabling the Fixed grid in all sheets setting will lock the range of the chart axis across all data sheets in your chart based on the largest value in the whole dataset. Use this setting if you are, for example, comparing the same elements over a period of time and intend to have the user click on the tabs above your chart to compare the data and see how it has changed during time. This way, the increase or decrease in values will be clearly visible as the axis range will not change. Don’t use this setting if you are comparing different elements in the tabs or the chart visualization will differ significantly.

To enable the zero baselines:

1. Select the chart with a click. 

2. In the Axis & Grid tab of your chart settings, in the Grid drop-down, choose None, Vertical or Horizontal. 

Note: The horizontal zero baseline or vertical zero baseline setting will appear when you choose to display the gridline perpendicular to the axis. 

3. Enable the horizontal zero baseline or vertical zero baseline setting. 

To adjust settings in a line chart: 

If you are using a line chart, you can flip the chart axis so the lowest values are at the top:

1. Click to select your chart, then expand the Axis & Grid tab in the right sidebar.

2. Enable the Flip chart option.

By default, line charts use a date format for the top row column. Here you can also enable Numeric categories to treat the values as plain numbers. That this setting works with numbers and not date/time formats.

If you have only a few data points and would like for your line to have smoother angles, you can enable the Smooth curves option which can be found by expanding the Chart properties tab in the right sidebar.

Tip: Don’t use this option if the exact position of your data points is significant.

You can also add or remove the value point dots your line. This makes it easier to call attention to specific values, directing viewers to specific bits of information. With large datasets, points are turned off automatically when the chart area becomes overcrowded. View more