In this issue, we’ve collected a few data-viz-related articles we’ve posted since the last Roundup.

There’s also some news about recently churned out version 5.20, which adds new themes, patterns, and a few cool features as well as other goodies for amCharts powerusers.

In other (amCharts) news

120th Congress maps

All the mid-term redistricting efforts are making electoral data-viz efforts difficult. That’s why we’ve went ahead and created an package of the Congressional districts maps for those states that are pretty much a “done deal”.

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A fundamentally better Wordcloud

The Wordcloud chart in amCharts 5.20 got dramatically better:

It’s now super fast. So fast in fact, that we had to add a setting to slow it down. Yes, really.
It can now arrange words at ANY angle, and…
… take ANY shape.

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A bunch of new exciting themes

Our theme department was busy lately:

8 brand new palette themes.
Dark versions for all existing themes.
Two configurable factory themes: Monochrome and Adaptive.

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And a couple of new patterns

Stars and Triangles.

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A true hosted amCharts MCP server

We now run a fully hosted amCharrts MCP server so you don’t have to. Just point your favorite AI agent to this URL:

https://mcp.amcharts.com/mcp

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DataViz Roundup — August 10, 2026