Turn Data Into Interactive Charts for Your Content

Interactive charts let readers hover over a point to see the exact value, switch to the data behind the chart and open a larger view. Original charts give readers a clear takeaway at a glance, and other sites have a graphic worth citing and linking to when they cover the same topic.

Create a chart, open the share dialog and copy the embed code from the "Embed in a webpage" tab. In WordPress, add a Custom HTML block and paste the code. In Ghost, add an HTML card. The same steps work for the HTML or embed blocks in Webflow, Wix, Squarespace and custom CMS templates.

Newsletters and email tools display images, so export the chart as a PNG or JPG and add it to your issue, or turn on image sharing to get a public image URL. Link the image to the interactive version of the chart on your website so readers can explore the full data.

Yes. The responsive embed code resizes the frame to fit the chart, and responsive chart sizing redraws the chart for the space it has, so text stays full size on phones. On very small embeds the embed toolbar collapses into one menu to save room.

Yes. Include the Full Dataset and Plotted Data views in your share settings, and readers can switch from the chart to a sortable, filterable data table using the embed toolbar. Showing the numbers behind a chart builds trust in your reporting.

Connect a Google Sheet and set the sync schedule to update whenever the original sheet changes. Edit the sheet as results come in, and the embedded chart shows the new numbers on every page that uses it. Google can take up to 5 minutes to send changes through, and scheduled syncing is available on paid plans.

The embed code stays the same. Update the sheet with a newer file, sync it from Google Sheets or add rows through Zapier, and every article that embeds the chart shows the latest data with zero edits to your posts.

Add a caption under the chart with source text and a source link to the original data. The source travels with the chart, so it stays attached when other sites embed your graphic or readers share it.

Yes. Paid plans include share analytics with a top referring pages report that ranks the URLs loading your embedded chart by view count, for the last 30 days and all time. Use it to find sites that picked up your graphic and ask for a credit or a link.

Yes. Paid plans can turn on Whitelist Domains in the share settings and list the domains and subdomains allowed to load the embed. Turn off Allow Top Level Loading to keep the chart viewable only as an embed on your approved sites.

Yes. Add your logo or a watermark to any chart with an image annotation, and add a caption with your publication's name. The logo is part of the chart, so it appears in embeds, shared links and exported images.

The Broadsheet theme styles charts like a newspaper data graphic. InstaCharts includes 10 themes in total, such as Midnight for dark pages and Financial for market coverage, and you can match any theme to your site's colors and Google Fonts.

Yes. Turn a chart into a template in the Templates tab of the share dialog, then pass new data in the URL to create an interactive chart page, an embed or a chart image with the same styling. Templates suit sites that publish the same kind of chart across many pages.

Yes. Share the full dataset of a sheet and embed it as a sortable, filterable data table. Readers can sort any column and search the rows, which suits rankings, price comparisons, statistics and directories.

Yes. Export charts as PNG, JPG or WebP images and set the chart width and height up to 2,400 pixels to fit each platform. Promote a data story on social media with the image, and link back to the interactive chart in your article.

Embeds on the free plan include a small InstaCharts link, and charts include a small watermark. Paid plans remove the watermark and the InstaCharts link, so embedded charts carry only your own branding.

Yes. The free plan lets you create, embed and export charts with up to 500 rows of data per sheet. Paid plans starting at $10 per user per month remove the row limit and the watermark, and add share analytics, domain whitelisting and scheduled syncing.