2021
Subtotal (or “sum”) columns in waterfall charts now support showing multiple categories—even if the sum of some categories is negative. Check out this cool animation to see this feature in action:
Bug Fixes
User Experience
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User Experience
Data Input
Pressing [Return] while editing a multi-line text cell in the spreadsheet will now accept the input as in Excel or Google Sheets.
Improved selection handling of text boxes by adding cursor switches on hover as well as increasing the size of selection frames.
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Gantt Chart
Bug Fixes
Teams
Bug Fixes
Gantt Chart
User Experience
Task segments and milestones can now be moved across activities.
We added some more icons for task milestones and improved the user interface for working with segments a bit.
You can now freely change which days are part of the weekend.
Vizzlo's Desktop App
Bug Fixes
Gantt Chart
User Experience
Handling of split tasks is now way more straightforward. Also, the ribbon used to connect different segments can be hidden now.
The date axis works in other languages than English.
Data Viz
User Experience
Platform
User Experience
NEW: Vizzlo finally supports multi-selection 🌈 now! Change or remove multiple annotations, bars, countries, …, tasks, anything really, at once.
Bug Fixes
Waterfall Chart
User Experience
Data-Sync
User Experience
Waterfall Chart
Bug Fixes
We keep on giving a lot of ❤️ to the Waterfall chart.
NEW Add a level difference arrow to indicated changes from one position to another in basis points now.
Moreover, this release contains 6 bug fixes.
NEW Add a level difference arrow to indicated changes from one position to another in basis points now.
Annotations
🎉 We have given the sum difference arrows a makeover.
New functionality includes:
- drag and drop
- vertical adjustment of the calculations
- improved positioning when multiple arrows are added
- streamlined user interface
With this release we also fixed 4 bugs in the chart related to the sum difference arrows.
Platform
- 4 different option to display the sign of positive and negative numbers
- Switch position of the sign and a prefix
Box plot
Data Viz
🎉 Vizzlo’s portfolio offers box plots now. Key features are 5 number summary statistics for each of your data columns, sorting by median, easy width and color adjustment, and a lot more to come.
NEW This chart supports level difference arrows now. Use this analysis feature to add an additional layer of information to your visualisation quickly.
Area Chart
Bar Chart
Bubble Chart
Dot Plot Chart
Grouped Bar Chart
Line Graph
Radar Chart
Range Plot
Slopegraph
Waterfall Chart
NEW Most of our data visualisations now support SI prefixes, advanced number format options for axes and shown data labels.
Platform
User Experience
Data-Sync
Radial Percentage
Data-Sync
Platform
User Experience
Platform
User Experience
Data Viz
Bug Fixes
User Experience
Bug Fixes
Data Input
Butterfly Chart
Bubble Chart
Grouped Bar Chart
Marimekko chart
Pie Chart
Radial Bar Chart
Slopegraph
Stacked Bar Chart
Bug Fixes
- User reported an error message when they joined a team - we fixed that.
- Safari user don’t see the editor sidebar flickering anymore.
- There was a chance that your charts crash when you connected to an empty Google Sheet, that should not happen anymore.
NEW There is now the option to hide all data labels, and we also streamlined the user interface.
Line Graph
Bug Fixes
Bar Chart
Bug Fixes
Data Input
Bug Fixes
Loading folders…no more. This release fixes a bug reported by some of you that made it impossible to move documents and folders.- Input elements where not always selectable in the spreadsheet when you connected your charts to an external data source. That is fixed now too.
- We fixed a bug that caused a 403 error when you linked your documents to Google sheets at certain times.
Data Input
Bug Fixes
🎉 The Time Series Graph now supports separate colors for positive and negative values. This features works for line, bar and area charts.
Bug Fixes
Platform
Bug Fixes
- We fixed a bug for Safari users that made the sidebar flicker in some charts.
- Folders with special characters in their name are visible again in your dashboard.
Data Input
Platform
We released the audit log for enterprise customers. This will give admins a chronological list of events that happened in their organisation.
Bug Fixes
Data Input
🎉 Connecting a chart to an external data source has become very powerful.
You can now bring any combination of columns into Vizzlo’s spreadsheet, and they don’t even have to start in the same row.
T; R:Y; I:T; Y;O;U;R;S;E:L;F
Learn more about how to connect a chart to an external data source.
Time Series Graph
Bug Fixes
Bug Fixes
Platform
Platform
Bug Fixes
- You will see the correct dimension again when you change the document layout.
- Moving and renaming folders works as expected again.
Platform
- You can now insert
soft line breaks using the rich-text editor - keyboard shortcuts for bold ⌘+b (Mac) or ctrl+b (Windows), italic ⌘+i or ctrl+i, underline ⌘+u or ctrl+u formatting are supposed now too. To clear any formatting press ⌘+\ or ctrl+\
Bubble Chart
Dot Plot Chart
Marimekko chart
Grouped Bar Chart
Growth Bar Chart
Stacked Bar Chart
100% Stacked Area Chart
100% Stacked Bar Chart
Bug Fixes
Platform
Bug Fixes
2020
Platform
Bug Fixes
🎉 Scale breaks on the y-axis are now supported.
See our help center article on bar charts for all features, tips&tricks.
Platform
Google Slides Add-on
Bug Fixes
Platform
Bug Fixes
Project Phase Chart
Bug Fixes
Teams
Platform
Platform
🎨 We improved the creation of color palettes.
No matter how many categories or series your data contains, our algorithm will do the right thing. It will add as many colors as needed for your charts. These colors are created by interpolation from the color space defined by the color palette of the theme used.
Teams
Bug Fixes
Time Series Graph
Bug Fixes
NEW We added Level difference arrows as a new analysis feature. Use it to highlight and compare values.
Drag and drop the arrow ends to calculate the sum, difference, growth rate, ratio, or add free text. Read more about level difference arrows in our Help center article on bar charts.
Platform
Platform
🎉 Collaboration for team members just got to the next level. You can comment on team documents.
NEW The bar chart comes with three options now to change the color mode.
You can now
- set one color for all bars
- color positive and negative values differently, or
- use the colors from your theme palette.
Marimekko chart
Bar Chart
Line Graph
Time Series Graph
Growth Bar Chart
100% Stacked Bar Chart
Stacked Area Chart
100% Stacked Area Chart
Triangle Bar Chart
Platform
You can now directly add Vizzlo charts stored in Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, and OneDrive from the sidebar of our Google Slides integration. 📊
NEW Another chart waiting for you! Welcome the Marimekko chart to the Vizzlo family. 🎉
Features include:
- Vertical and horizontal chart layout.
- Add padding between your segments.
- Display your data by absolute or relative numbers.
- Sort your data separately for each category.
Create your own: vizzlo.com/create/marimekko-chart
Data Input
NEW We added support to sync your documents with public CSV files from all over the web, and stored in your Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive account.
NEW Please welcome the GE-McKinsey Matrix in our portfolio 🎉
Features include:
- Switch between a square matrix layout and a rectangular layout.
- Add inner padding between the cells.
- Show or hide a legend, row, column, or cell headers.
- Move axes lines from top to bottom or left to right.
NEW More customization options for you. Change the color of any milestone now independently.
Platform
NEW Folder can be renamed now! Right-click on any folder and start editing.
NEW You can add a label to each segment now!
The UI of the Timeline received a facelift. We made it easier to
- position milestones on a timeline
- change the granularity of the timeline to daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly
- adjust the date format
NEW Besides that, we added the option to display free text instead of dates!
Platform
NEW One more chart that was completely revamped recently. Features include:
- Customizable document layout
- Set different colors for column headers, segment background and individual competitors
NEW You can adjust the width of the bars when you added a projection to your chart
Time Series Graph
Bug Fixes
- Improved axis tick positions for very small ranges of the y-axis
- Labels and values are at correct positions when you add reference lines or a moving average
We have improved the color contrast when you change the opacity.
NEW We added more customization options to the Sum / Difference arrows. Instead of calculations, it is now possible to show free text.
Platform
Waterfall Chart
NEW More options to compare values across bars using Sum/Difference Arrows.
- Sum
- Differences
- Growth rate
- Ratios
NEW We have completely revamped our slopegraph!
- Set colors differently for decreasing, increasing or equal values
- Adjust the line width for all lines or a single line
- Show/hide labels, values and legend
- Change the document layout and much more!
NEW We have added the option to change the color of all chevron headers simultaneously.
The UI also received a facelift.
NEW One more chart that got some ❤ recently.
It is now possible to
- change the document layout 👍
- change the color of the text 👍
- change the font size of the content easily 👍
- spin straw into gold 👎
Pictograph
Bug Fixes
Fractions will be shown correctly up to the nth decimal place.
NEW Multiple bar series can be positioned in three different ways.
- Grouped — multiple series are arranged side-by-side
- Stacked — stack overlapping series on top of each another
- Separate — positions won’t be adjusted, series are displayed overlapping
NEW You can sync your Vizzlo account to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive right from our desktop app (v1.3.6+).
NEW There is a new chart waiting for you in our portfolio! Use it to display the difference between two values.
You can adjust the size of the dots, switch between a horizontal and vertical chart and more. We added a more a sophisticated example to our gallery.
NEW We added a few styling options to our Value Projection. Now you can:
- display values in absolute and percentage mode
- show the category labels above or below the chart (or hide them)
- change the color of the record labels
- change the font style of the category and record labels
- change the layout of the chart itself
Time Series Graph
Bug Fixes
Multiple bar series containing missing data are now displayed correctly again.
We also put some ❤ into this chart. It is now possible to adjust the chart’s layout to any dimension.
We put some ❤ into this chart. Adjust the chart’s layout and shape to your liking.
Platform
User Experience
We are continuously working to improve your user experience. An even fresher look for our website, and new icons welcome you. Also another Quick Start article was added on how to Customize a theme to help you give your work a unique look.
We did a few improvements to this chart regarding:
- The user interface was polished for a selected series
- By default the y axis starts at zero for bar charts and area charts
- Defaults y axis range was improved when a log scale is applied
Fixed. Also we fixed a bug that didn’t show difference shades correctly on Safari browser.
Platform
NEW Theme selection is now much more illustrative. We will continue to work to make using Vizzlo as easy as possible.
Multiple segments in the same activity are now connected through a ribbon
Platform
Data Input
Number and date parsing just got better for Excel files. Drop it into the spreadsheet - decimal and thousand separator will be interpreted correctly as well as special formatting.
Platform
We re-designed our main landing page.
Go to vizzlo.com and see yourself (but you need to be logged out).
Annotations
Text annotations can now be easily resized. Simply use on of the drag handlers to adjust the text box to your needs.
Bug Fixes
Platform
A new dashboard is welcoming you! We’ll keep you updated about new features, promotion, articles. Also you’ll see the document you recently worked on right away.
Welcome home. 🏡
We have added the possibility to show series as grouped bars.
Click on a series and under Series style chose Grouped bars
Data Input
Month Year and you input, e.g. 2 2020 or 4/2020
Platform
User Experience
- NEW From now on, new users will be welcomed by a small selection of examples: get ready to explore and start creating!
- While editing document, we improved the visibility of the selected elements
- The interactivity of the dashboard while scrolling has significantly improved🚀
Data Viz
NEW It’s now possible to change the text size character by character! Simply select text and use the rich text editor for the customization.
Project Phase Chart
NEW Click on the column header and resize your columns as needed. Visualizing your project flow just became easier.
Click on the lock icon to undo your changes.
Platform
User Experience
The sidebar of the visualization editor got a major overhaul!
Properties of the document and selected elements are grouped now. The settings are way easier to access than ever before. Additionally, we introduced a toolbar to quickly allow you to open the spreadsheet or add anotations or analysis series. 🤙
Annotations
Our Pie Chart and Donut Chart have now more beautiful and smarter connectors between slices and labels. To try them on your charts, check the box Align labels
Bug Fixes
Text input: rich text edits will be exported correctly
Waterfall Chart: Existing documents showing difference arrows don’t not crash anymore
We have spent time to improve performance & memory usage.
This results in:
- a decreased starting time of Vizzlo’s powerpoint add-in by a second, and it
- makes working with large presentations stabler - especially when working with multiple presentations or running PowerPoint for multiple days
Also we improved our preview images to look nicer and clearer
Bug Fixes
Polar Bar Chart: Existing documents will not immediately crash anymore
Organizational Chart: Supports multi-line titles now
Google slides add-on: Any Vizzlo graphic can be added to your presentation again, we introduced a bug with previous release - sorry
Platform
There is no “i” in team! We made it easier for you to create a Vizzlo organization. Make collaboration easier by sharing documents, custom themes, and templates. 👩🏽🤝👩🏼👨🏾🤝👨🏻
Platform
Bug Fixes
Platform
User Experience
NEW You can now quickly group slices in one bigger “Other” slice to make your chart easier to read.
Bug Fixes
Platform
Bug Fixes
Time Series Graph: The spreadsheet froze for this chart when there was a scale break used together with invalid data.
Timeline Chart: There was a chance you saw a full ISO date format in the sidebar. Should not have happened too often.
Organizational Chart: Boxes will now immediately update upon changing a position to be an intermediate role.
Platform
NEW You can resize the width of the columns now! Simply drag it to the left and right to make your Gantt Chart even better.
Small UX improvements: Selecting (and deleting) a segment will no longer select (and delete) the whole activity anymore. 
User Experience
Color picker: it became a lot easier to change the color of an element. Simply click on the color code an edit it!
Bug Fixes
Organizational Chart: there was an update issue when you have changed one entry to be an intermediate role
Time Series Graph: The chart crashed when when you displayed your series as area that contained missing data
Annotations: the drag handler were a bit off when you rotated a line
Platform
Vizzlo's Desktop App
File → Document history ... or press Strg/Cmd + Shift + Alt + H to browse your changes.
NEW We have added an option to set the box height or box width for each row individually. That gives you a lot more freedom to tailor your chart according to your needs.
NEW Milestones can now have their own color and shape. Simply click on any milestone and change their appearance in the sidebar.
Besides that we put some ❤ into this chart and improved its usability and performance a lot: dragging activities, adding milestones and segments feels much more smooth and less hectic now.
Platform
NEW Document history! Browse versions, restore them or create a new document as a copy. None of your changes will be lost. Click on the chart title in the menu bar and then Document history ... or use the shortcut and press Strg/Cmd + Shift + Alt + H to open it.
User Experience
Simple Gantt
NEW You can drag and drop activities vertically now
NEW Milestones can have their own date format independent of axis settings and activity settings.
We also improved the grid line positions and respective date labeling of the horizontal axis. You don’t need to worry about it and we take care of a good format here.
Fixed. The placement of date & description in some edge cases now works as expected.
Stacked Bar Chart
Bug Fixes
NEW You can place category labels now directly to the last bar instead of having them in a legend.
Fixed. The number format of sum labels was totally off when you displayed individual values as percentages too. That is now working.
Fixed. There was an updated error of axis labels after you reordered your bars. That is also working now.
Bug Fixes
Data Input
Bug Fixes
Pie Chart: There was a bug when value labels were aligned. You couldn’t change the category labels to be displayed in the legend.
Gantt Chart: you could see some weird behavior of the chart moving outside of the canvas when you placed a milestone outside of the date range. That is gone now.
Time Series Graph: it was not possible to hide the label of a shade but now everything is back to normal.
User Experience
Bug Fixes
Gantt Chart: axis labels weren’t centered if your axis domain didn’t cover a whole year
Pie Chart: the tooltip position was off a bit for a selected wedge
Venn Diagram: better position of newly added circles that overlay each other
Time Series Graph: the chart crashed when you deleted data from spreadsheet that was used for an analysis feature
Date parsing of quarters didn’t work as expected in our spreadsheet
We improved the sorting for an even smarter chart. Bubbles will be rendered by their size: largest on bottom, smallest on top so you won’t miss any observation.
Bug Fixes
2019
Data Input
NEW The Waterfall chart is now also available in horizontal mode!
NEW We added the possibility to set the minimum size and maximum size of all bubbles to your liking.
NEW We have also added an option to customize the opacity and the border width.
NEW It’s now possible to hide all labels by just one click.
And generally, we improved the overall performance of the chart.🎈
Bug Fixes
Templates folder in your documents dashboard.
Data Input
Bug Fixes
NEW. Data in the form of, say [$1, $2, $3] or [1%, 2%, 3%] will be parsed correctly now if you specify a prefix or suffix before data import
Fixed. Empty lines were displayed as <br> in spreadsheet
Fixed. Columns couldn’t be resized for some charts
Fixed. Content inside the spreadsheet wasn’t editable anymore after you used the auto-completion out of bounds
Bug Fixes
Waterfall Chart: for topmost entries of stacked bars a prefixed ‘+’ was missing
Treemap: we mapped the wrong color code to ‘content color’ you set in the theme
Data Input
Spreadsheet --> Connect and simply paste a public link to your data and schedule automated updates.
NEW We have created templates for you! Select to display 2 to 5 circles arranged nicely.
Rotate and slide the circles as you wish. Change their border width and opacity.