How to make your first chart in GeoLens

An account and one question about countries, such as how access to electricity changed in Kenya. You do not need a file: every built-in indicator is free and already in the studio.

A line chart is the best first chart. It answers how something changed, and it shows the studio's whole path in one sitting.

Left: what the chart says, which is the indicator, the years and the countries. Middle: the chart itself, exactly as it will be exported. Right: how it looks, in two tabs, Design and Add. Download and Share sit at the top right.

Everything you change shows in the chart at once, and the studio saves as you go.

Six steps. Each picture shows the control to use, ringed in gold.

1. 1

   Open geolens.eu/create and choose a type. Line sits under Over time.

   
2. 2

   The chart opens straight away as a draft. To rename it, click its name in the bar.

   
3. 3

   Press the indicator name at the top left and search by name, such as electricity. Pick one result.

   
4. 4

   Set the start and end year, then search and tick the countries. The first country you pick is the highlighted one.

   
5. 5

   Click the title on the chart and press Use the finding as the title. Edit the words if you can say it better.

   
6. 6

   Open Download and choose PNG image. The file is the chart as you see it.

   

TipChange one thing at a time and look at the chart after each. The picture always shows what you will get.

Press Share to give the chart a link or an embed, and keep working on it from My work. The studio saves as you go.

Try another shape from the shape menu above the chart: the same data redraws as bars, a heatmap or a map.

Start from an example when you want to see a finished chart first: the Examples tab opens one in the studio. Start with data when you have your own table to chart.

Drag a country in the list to reorder the chart's legend. The first country stays the highlighted one. Undo and Redo, beside the zoom under the chart, take back any change.