Animated Graphs in Presentation

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Make the numbers speak for themselves with dynamic Animated Data Visualizations!

There is no question that data visualizations help drive home the point you are trying to make. Adding animation to those data visualizations can take your insights to the next level. Show your audience the rate at which things are growing, by showing your data actually growing. With CustomShow, you can transform static graphs and charts into branded and animated data visualizations with a single click in the editor. No need to build graphs in another tool and take those pesky screenshots.

Steps

1

Add a Textbox, a circle Shape, and a Bar Chart to the slide
Drag and drop a Video for background

2

Select the Video.
Use the Position properties or its edges to fit the slide
Right click > Arrange > Send to back
Set Show Video Controls to Never
Set Playback to Loop (optional)

3

Select the Chart
Click on Edit Data and Color, hover on series 2 to remove it, now click on Add Column to add more columns, and change the color for each bar (Try – #AEC8EB)
Set Bar Width at 50%, enable Data Rollover
Enable Data Labels and set to ‘Outside’
Enable Animate, set Easing to ‘EaseOutQuad’ and Duration: 1 sec
Provide Padding (Try – left:15, right:15, bottom:5)
Go to the X-axis, enable Category Label, and customize the text by changing the font type, color, and size

4

Select the circle Shape
Resize by clicking and dragging the edges
In Character, give the font type, size, and color (Try – #0A2898)
To give it Build (animation) in sync with the chart, In Build In, choose effect ‘Move’, Direction ‘Up’, Build Order: 1, Start: After Previous, Duration: 1 sec, Delay: 0 sec, Easing: Bounce

Congratulations! You are all done!

Elements

1 Video

2 Textboxes

1 Chart

1 Shape

Design Tips & Tricks 🔥

Ensure that labels are clear and concise
You can import your dataset into CustomShow.
Use shapes to draw attention and highlight specific data points
For complex data sets, consider using multiple charts to present different aspects of the data