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PovcalNet Internal Guidelines and Protocols

15 Data visualization: Flourish studio

This chapter presents the data visualization tools used by the PovcalNet team.

Flourish studio is a user friendly data visualization platform to create interactive data stories. It creats charts, maps and interactive graphs starting from your data.

Flourish offers both a free (Public) and paid service(Personal or Business). All data in the free (Public) version is available to the public. For this reason the PovcalNet team shares a paid account. Important: do not use sensitive or unpublished data in your own free account as anyone with a Flourish account will be able to see it (this applies to data in production or in internal servers available to the team before PovcalNet updates).

Here are the credentials for the team’s paid account:

A quick overview of Flourish and how to sign in follows.

15.1 Sign in

Follow this link for the Flourish homepage:

Flourish Homepage

Figure 15.1: Flourish Homepage

Click on “SIGN IN” and use the credentials for the team’s account:
SIGN IN

Figure 15.2: SIGN IN

This is how the team’s account looks like:
Flourish-PovcalNet Account

Figure 15.3: Flourish-PovcalNet Account

15.2 Get started

To start a new project, “Add a new folder” and title it with “Month/Year+Topic,” for example “September 2020 COVID.”

Once you created the folder and opened it, click on “New Visualization” to create a chart/story/map:
New Visualization

Figure 15.4: New Visualization