Flourish Essentials

Learn to turn data into clear, compelling stories with Flourish, a tool for creating engaging, interactive visualizations. In this course, you’ll learn to build, style, and share charts that make your data easier to understand – from your first bar chart to using colors, annotations, grids, and filters. No coding required.

Flourish Essentials

30m

6 lessons

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Flourish Essentials

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This lesson takes you through the full process of building a bar chart in Flourish, from picking the right template and swapping in your own data, through to sorting, labeling, and exporting a chart that's ready to share. By the end, you'll have built a complete, responsive bar chart ready to publish or embed.
Building your first chart in Flourish
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This lesson covers how to move beyond Flourish's default palette, from switching color modes and extending a palette for unique values, to overriding individual bars by label so the right data point stands out against a quiet, neutral background. By the end, you'll know how to direct attention exactly where you want it using color alone.
How to customize colors in Flourish
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This lesson shows how to layer annotations onto a line chart's axes, from marking a single pivotal moment to highlighting an entire date range.
How to add annotations in Flourish
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This lesson looks at small formatting details that make a big difference to readability, from shading the gap between two diverging lines to labeling only the data points that actually matter.
How to shade between the lines in Flourish
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This lesson covers how to turn an unreadable, overcrowded "spaghetti" chart into a clean, responsive grid, including how to keep your coloring consistent and make sure the grid splits your data exactly the way you intend.
How to use grid of charts in Flourish
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This lesson covers how to let viewers explore a large dataset at their own pace, from a simple category dropdown to a searchable, multi-select filter for charts with dozens of columns.

What you’ll learn

Creating and exporting charts
Annotations and shading
Grid of charts
Filters

30m

6 lessons

Last updated 07 Oct, 2026

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First, we recommend completing all the course material associated with the certification. This might include tutorial videos, activities, and cheat sheets.
Once you’re ready, start the test at the top of this page. You’ll be asked a series of questions. If you get them all right, you'll be awarded a certificate.
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