Build your data story with Shorthand

Inform, delight, and entertain your audience with powerful data storytelling — no code required.

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The world's leading brands trust Shorthand

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  • Oxfam logo
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Create animated data visualisations without code

Use static images to create compelling animations, triggered as the reader scrolls.

  • Create interactive data visualisations with your existing static charts, graphs, and maps.
  • Shorthand content is fully responsive, with in-app guides to ensure your data visualisations work on all screen sizes.

Embed your third-party tool or code

Make the most of your data visualisations, no matter how you built them.

  • Shorthand supports most leading data visualisation platforms.
  • Embed charts and graphs from Flourish, Tableau, Microsoft BI, Google, Mapbox, and more.
  • Embed your bespoke data visualisation using our custom code block, with support for custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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Data storytelling for all content teams

With our intuitive editor, all content teams can include attention-grabbing data visualisations.

  • Include charts, graphs, and maps in your feature story, annual report, white paper, internal marketing, science communication, and more.
  • No code — or PhD in data science — required.

Build a story with data

Use Shorthand’s leading visual storytelling tools to create a beautiful narrative around your data visualisation.

  • Create gorgeous visual stories with rich multimedia assets, including video, images, and audio.
  • Balance text, media, and data to produce a compelling data story that gets results.
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Check out these stunning data stories — built with Shorthand

Sky News

Sky News

Stuff

Stuff

The Telegraph

The Telegraph

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I like that you can animate without actually animating. The ability to upload images and make them appear to animate is an excellent feature.

Natalie Booth, Digital Marketing Officer, The Doherty Institute

We compared content created with Shorthand to our regular news content and found 142% higher page views, 50% more time on page, and 7% more pages viewed per session.

Andrew Youngson, Communications Insight Manager, Imperial College London

Learn more about data storytelling with Shorthand

8 examples of stunning data stories

8 examples of stunning data stories

An introduction to data storytelling

An introduction to data storytelling

How to create great data journalism

How to create great data journalism

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