What are teams?

Teams let you collaborate & share folders with visualizations with others within one workspace, be it within a company, on a course at university or when working with clients on a website.

How to create a team

To create a team within a workspace, you need to be a workspace admin or manager. To create a team, go to your workspace's settings by clicking on Settings and Account via the menu at the top right. Navigate to the Teams section, and click on Create team.

When you click on Archive at the top, you will see the teams you're a part of in your workspace in the Shared section on the left hand side. There you can create as many folders as you need and organize your visualizations. You can also browse public teams in your workspace by clicking "All teams"

Our teams come with some powerful options. You can

• show a Slack or Microsoft Teams notification every time somebody in your team creates or publishes a visualization
• set a default folder (like “first draft”) for the visualizations created within the team
• create a custom embed code to define the height, width, border etc.

Let’s see how you can make use of this all before looking at some practical questions you might have:

How to use teams

Here are four ideas on how to use team folders.

• Help & supervise. Datawrapper’s simplicity makes it a great charting & mapping tool for data vis newbies in your organization. But especially in the beginning, they will need some help. Shared folders enable your in-house graphics team to quickly check what’s being produced by the rest of the company, to make sure everything is up to standard.
• Create workflows. To know where things are at when collaborating with coworkers, set up subfolders for steps of the process like “Draft”, “Fact-Check” and “Published”. If your coworker has a Kindergarten emergency an hour before publishing the report, you can take over and make the last changes to their chart.
• Work with clients. Invite your clients to make the last changes to charts, maps & tables you’re researching and designing for them, before you hit the Publish button. To invite clients (or any other team members), you will also need to add them to your workspace.
• Teach. When teaching data visualization, Datawrapper’s teams enable you to have an overview of all of the students’ exercises and assignments. Create a new team for each class and invite your students, then create a new folder for each assignment and let your students move their submissions there. You can check their data, sources and chart design choices directly in the app.
• Browse all teams in your workspace. You can browse the public teams in your workspace by going to your Archive and click on All teams under the Shared section.

If you have any more questions, please let us know with an email to support@datawrapper.de. Also, if you’re using the teams feature in a way that might be interesting for other readers of this blog, get in touch with us, too. We’d love to write about it.