Ever wondered how to create a free animated bar chart, showing how a data set changes over time? With Google Data Studio’s new Community Visualizations you can now create animations like the one below in a matter of minutes!

To begin, create a new Google Sheet and connect to the data you’d like to visualize. You can link it right to the source (i.e. Google Ads) or a Google Sheet with the data in.

If you were trying to recreate the above video, you’d format the data like so:

When adding the data source, make sure that you enable community visualization access:

Next, select Community chart from the menu bar, and then +Explore More.

Scroll until you find the Animated Bar Chart by Analytics Buddy:

You can then select which Dimension and metrics you’d like to be displayed, under the Data tab.

This will create an animated chart like this:

Under the styling tab, you can then select styling options, like the delay, chart size etc.

And that’s it! Just like that you’ve now created an animated bar chart in Google Data Studio!