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Datawrapper 1.9

Portrait of Gregor Aisch
Gregor Aisch

Datawrapper 1.9 is out, and here are all the big and small changes.

Major changes:

You can now add notes below your charts. This can be useful to explain details about the chart or the dataset that don’t fit into the chart intro text.

This is how the notes are displayed in the charts:

Other changes and bug-fixes:

  • grouping of vis options in chart editor
  • load js libs in reverse order of vis inheritance
  • bugfixes with command-line publishing
  • fixed automatic number format guessing
  • replaced old dw.js make script with Gruntfile.js
  • admin-themes now shows when themes have been last used
  • added hook for adding markup below describe step sidebar
  • changed syntax to plugin.php download [giturl]
Portrait of Gregor Aisch

Gregor Aisch (he/him, @gka@vis.social, LinkedIn) is a co-founder of Datawrapper and a member of the advisory board. He was responsible for the product design and development in the first years of Datawrapper and later served as CTO for five years. Gregor still enjoys making graphics and lives in Berlin.

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