Create interactive bubble charts to educate, engage, and excite your audience

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This type of chart is often used in business for comparing and visualizing the relationships between particular projects. They can also be used to show investment alternatives in various dimensions such as cost, value, and risk. 

Bubble charts can facilitate the understanding of social, economic, and other scientific relationships. For example, by plotting the results of increasing the price of cigarettes,  you can see if it has prevented people from smoking and if it has decreased lung cancer cases per capita. A bubble chart can quickly and effectively share that data story.

Overall, bubble charts are good for visualizing situations, patterns, and correlations, but they can’t explain the why of the situation, or how it occurred. Bubble charts are ideal for sharing limited data points and should not be used when there is a large amount of data to share.

With Infogram, you can create dynamic charts and maps that update live and in real-time. We support two integrations for live updates:

1. Google Sheets

2. JSON feeds

As soon as the data changes in the Google Sheet or JSON file, the chart or map it is linked to will automatically update, even where embedded.

Note: Infogram doesn't support formulas, only raw data. If you use formulas or other scripts in your Google sheet, the calculations may not show on Infogram after the import.

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You can make a bubble chart in 5 easy steps:

1. Join Infogram to make your own bubble chart design.

2. Select the bubble chart.

3. Upload or copy and paste your data.

4. Customize colors, fonts, and labels.

5. Download your bubble chart or embed it on your website.

Bubble charts allow you to compare more data, but the number of categories you can “map” on it is limited. Too many bubbles in one chart may look chaotic. Remember, less is more. Show only the categories that are important.

Make the chart more readable by keeping bubbles transparent to make “hidden” bubbles visible and help detect the center of each circle.

The sizes of the circles need to be drawn based on the circle’s area, not its radius or diameter. Not only will the size of the circles change exponentially, but this will lead to misinterpretations by the human visual system.

1. In a project, click the Add chart (or Add map) button on the left side panel and choose the chart type that best fits the information you want to display. If you are not sure which one to pick, try adding any chart type to your project and then double-click it to review the example data. Use this data layout in the Google sheet you want to import into a chart.

Tip: Most Infogram charts can only display numeric data (line, column, bar, pie, bubble charts, etc.). However, some are designed to display textual information as well (word cloud, treemap). If your data source contains some columns with numbers and some with text, you will need to:

 A. separate textual ones and visualize them in a separate text-based chart, or

 B. import the data into a table chart that supports numbers + text inside one chart.

2. Double-click the chart to open its editor. Above the data table, you will see data import buttons. Choose to Add a Google Drive document.  

3. Connect your Google Drive account. All Google sheets will be displayed in the list.

Pro tip: you can remove Google Drive and Infogram integration via the Google account settings. When you do, existing live-updating charts will lose their connection.

4. Choose the spreadsheet with the data you need from your Google Drive.

5. When you edit information in your Google sheet, it will automatically update in your Infogram chart. The chart refreshes data every 30 seconds to a minute. These changes will automatically apply to your embeds and shared URL link.

Note: When changing the order of tabs in a Google sheet, the tabs will not automatically shift in your Infogram project. Each data tab of your Infogram project draws information from the numerically corresponding tab in the Google sheet, therefore you have to manually rename the tabs in your Infogram chart.

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1. Add a chart or map to your project canvas by clicking the Add chart or Add map buttons in the left side panel.

2. Double-click the chart to open its editor. Above the data table, you will see data import buttons. Choose the Add JSON feed option.

3. Use this example to understand how to format your JSON feed. To create a multi-tab chart or map, use the following example. 

4. Now, when you edit the information in your JSON feed, it will automatically update in your Infogram chart. The chart refreshes data every 30 seconds to a minute. These changes will automatically apply to your embeds and shared URL link.

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