Who decided British place names should be this confusing?
Mind the gap, scale the map (markers)
Is this miserable London weather for real?!
Mapping a Super Bowl halftime show
Data Vis Dispatch, February 25: German elections and three years of war in Ukraine
Radish to romanesco: A year in vegetables
Data Vis Dispatch, February 18: German election polls, corruption, and tariffs
New: Small multiple column charts in Datawrapper
Brewing a new map of Europe
Data Vis Dispatch, February 11: Super Bowl, minerals, and Baltic states
New: Add comparison columns for election reporting and more
Pay to play
Data Vis Dispatch, February 4: Aviation, mayors, and dinosaurs
Fix my chart » Maps as guides
Reading around the world
Read “How to lie with maps” by Mark Monmonier with us!
Data Vis Dispatch, January 28: Snowfall, astronauts, and electricity
Meet the tracking companies that follow you around the internet
Data Vis Dispatch, January 21: AI, inauguration, and ceasefire
New: Combine series with different intervals in line charts
Social (and other) networks in Datawrapper
Data Vis Dispatch, January 14: Fire, congestion, and Greenland
Election madness 2024 — one year in the Data Vis Dispatch
Data Vis Dispatch, January 7
🍎 and 🍏, but no raspberry emoji 🤔
Data Vis Lists, 2024
Which chart types did our users create in 2024?
Point after point
Data Vis Dispatch, December 17: Holiday special
What we built for you in 2024
Fix my chart » Simple data
Flight delays? Snow problem.
How to find & create good color palettes
Data Vis Dispatch, December 10
Argentina’s escape from Kafka’s castle
Data Vis Dispatch, December 3
We’re waiting longer than ever for our favorite TV shows to return
Data Vis Dispatch, November 26
Building accessible sites with SvelteKit: seven practical tips
New York’s slow (noisy, polluted) road to congestion pricing
Data Vis Dispatch, November 19
The gender income gap, squared
Data Vis Dispatch, November  12
How a flower became the main character of the late Pleistocene
Data Vis Dispatch, November 5
New: Annotations in bar, range, and dot charts
What are Americans afraid of?
Data Vis Dispatch, October 29
New: Arrow maps
A retrospective of 15 years of data visualization projects
Data Vis Dispatch, October 22
Into the Death Zone
Data Vis Dispatch, October 15
We’re hiring a Werkstudent*in Social Media & Communications
Read “Practical Charts” by Nick Desbarats with us!
The world could be your oyster, but it depends on your passport
What to consider when choosing colors for race, ethnicity, and world regions
Data Vis Dispatch, October 8
Why bi visibility matters
We’re hiring a Visual Designer
We’re hiring a Data Vis Product Designer
Data Vis Dispatch, October 1
Fix my chart » Sequential storytelling
My first Weekly Chart… about what?!
Data Vis Dispatch, September 24
Say Hi to Ceren!
Poles (and others) at the polls in Pennsylvania
New: Automatically label data points in line charts
Data Vis Dispatch, September 17
Raising relief maps from a line chart
New: Comments & notifications in Datawrapper
Data Vis Dispatch, September 10
Fix my chart » Using text elements
Google searching for election outcomes
New: Add patterns to choropleth maps
Data Vis Dispatch, September 3
Germany’s richest people are indeed very, very rich
Data Vis Dispatch, August 27
Introducing Datawrapper for PowerPoint
How bicycle friendly is Germany?
Data Vis Dispatch, August 20
A bad chart got better – and then bad again
Data Vis Dispatch, August 13
Watch the recordings of Unwrapped, our conference
Is all fitness tracker data just an n=1 experiment?
Data Vis Dispatch, August 6
The battle for streams (and what it’s doing to music)
Data Vis Dispatch, July 30
Dinosaurs: Long dead but still on the move
Data Vis Dispatch, July 23
Say Hi to Erle!
Practical tactical voting
Fix my chart » Compact tables
Data Vis Dispatch, July 16
The history of left-handedness
Data Vis Dispatch, July 9
Every meteorite we saw falling down to earth
Data Vis Dispatch, July 2
We’re hiring a UI / UX designer with experience in data visualization
We’re hiring a UI / UX designer with experience in brand and visual communication
The problem with long term investments
Data Vis Dispatch, June 25
New: Stay organized with a more powerful, faster visualization archive
Could you add a map of Kirkjubæjarklaustur?
Data Vis Dispatch, June 18
Read “Chart Spark” by Alli Torban with us!
Visualizing music
Fix my chart » Map annotations
Data Vis Dispatch, June 11
Data Vis Dispatch, June 4
After 20 years of streaming, how is the music industry doing?
Data Vis Dispatch, May 28
Does drinking coffee make your country richer?
Data Vis Dispatch, May 21
How do we use the Earth’s land?
Say Hi to Gustav!
Data Vis Dispatch, May 14
The first platform wars
Fix my chart » The y-axis
Data Vis Dispatch, May 7
Family trees, heat maps, waffle charts — here’s what Cédric Scherer created for the #30DayChartChallenge
Easier, faster, and more flexible line chart editing
Where to get Bojangles biscuits
Data Vis Dispatch, April 30
Music festivals in Europe
Data Vis Dispatch, April 23
Humanity deserves more humane drug policies
Data Vis Dispatch, April 16
Say Hi to Jonathan!
New in symbol and choropleth maps: cropped view and inset maps
A total eclipse in photos
Data Vis Dispatch, April 9
Where would Germany be without Fukushima?
Data Vis Dispatch, April 2
French people are losing confidence in the Paris Olympics
New: Keep your account secure with two-factor-authentication
Data Vis Dispatch, March 26
New: Control height of responsive line charts, column charts, and scatter plots
Household work: More equal, but far from equal
Data Vis Dispatch, March 19
Introducing edit history: Restore past versions of your visualizations
Introducing live collaboration in Datawrapper
Collaboration on the Datawrapper app team
Say Hi to Linus!
Data Vis Dispatch, March 12
Rose Mintzer-Sweeney, Datawrapper, will speak about three years of trends in news visualizations
Erkka Rautio, The Finnish Parliament, will talk about customizing Datawrapper tables
Sean Greene, Los Angeles Times, will speak about their use of the Datawrapper API to power a drought tracker
Elana Levin Schtulberg, Datawrapper, will speak about how we decide what features to add
Victòria Oliveres, elDiario.es, will speak about how her team is using Datawrapper
Shh! Animals are sleeping
Kiko Llaneras, El País, will speak about coding Datawrapper histograms, beeswarms, and more in R
Taylor Orth, YouGov, will speak about using Datawrapper to visualize public opinion
Paula Guisado & Jaime Gutiérrez, DatosRTVE, will speak about a dataviz workflow for breaking news
Say Hi to Eleni!
Phil Holm, Associated Press, will speak about syncing your brand to Datawrapper
Ana Bertol, Odd Data & Design Studio, will speak about helping scientists make their data speak with Datawrapper
Data Vis Dispatch, March 5
Lalon Sander, taz/NDR, will speak about automating HTML buttons to link multiple charts
Taylor Bednarz, Maricopa County, will speak about rapid deploying of a COVID-19 vaccine data webpage
We’re hiring a support engineer
Alex Hamilton, Dealroom.co, will speak about building products with Datawrapper’s live functionality
Sören Müller-Hansen & Markus „fin“ Hametner, Süddeutsche Zeitung, will speak about their use of the API
Matilda Davies, The Times, will speak about creating a Datawrapper workflow
Patrick Stotz, Der Spiegel, will speak about their 7 most satisfying Datawrapper workarounds
The Great Drowning of Men
Ceren Dolma, freelance cartographer, will speak about mapping narratives with Datawrapper
Philipp David Pries, IPPEN.MEDIA, will speak about exploring new territories in locator maps
Jared Whalen, Axios, will speak about batch-creating Datawrapper visualizations
Data Vis Dispatch, February 27
Pearl Kyei, University of Ghana, will speak about showing regional trends with tables
Julia Wolfe, Reuters, will speak about bringing Datawrapper to a newsroom
Ben Kates, Urban Institute, will speak about extending Datawrapper tooltips with Svelte
Matthew Montesano, NYC DOHMH, will speak about a revolution in government data communication strategy
Remaking a 200-year-old chart
Muna Alebri, UCL, will speak about right-to-left data visualizations
Lucy Block, ANHD, will speak about shifting public narratives with data visualization
Jon  McClure & Ben  Welsh, Reuters, will speak about automating hundreds of charts each week
Data Vis Dispatch, February 20
Read “The Art of Insight” by Alberto Cairo with us!
Anna Lombardi, Copernicus Climate Change Service, will speak about using Datawrapper in different organizations
Downs and ups in the crossword
Data Vis Dispatch, February 13
The shapes of a working day
What to consider when creating small multiple line charts
Data Vis Dispatch, February 6
New: Small multiple line charts in Datawrapper
What happened to the seven bridges in Königsberg?
Harder, better, faster, stronger… forever?
Are connected scatterplots so bad?
Data Vis Dispatch, January 30
Amanda Cox, Bloomberg, will give a keynote about making better simple charts
Julius Tröger, ZEIT Online, will speak about animations, live dashboards, and scroll formats
C.J. Sinner, Star Tribune, will speak about making four unique charts with Datawrapper scatterplots
Visualizing vernacular variety in various vinyls
Data Vis Dispatch, January 23
Connecting the dots of population growth in Germany
Data Vis Dispatch, January 16
Vibes in Verse: Decoding the band TEMMIS
Data Vis Dispatch, January 9
Predictions for 2023, revisited
Which chart types did our users create in 2023?
Just over half of U.S. residents can leave the U.S.
Do all roads lead to Rome?
Data Vis Dispatch, December 19
Looking back at my year in running data
Speak at Unwrapped, the Datawrapper conference!
Data Vis Dispatch, December 12
Read “Questions in Dataviz” by Neil Richards with us!
Is there a movie franchise crisis?
Data Vis Dispatch, December 5
Say Hi to Vivien!
Who might win the next UK Election?
Data Vis Dispatch, November 28
Mapping second first languages
We’re hiring a senior data visualization developer
Data Vis Dispatch, November 21
Germany’s highest bandwidth is a pigeon’s wingspan
How to get started with data visualization
Data Vis Dispatch, November  14
The Unofficial NYC Subway Rat Census
From news media to Datawrapper: Six things I’ve learned in my first year
Data Vis Dispatch, November  7
Say Hi to Julian!
A recipe for Datawrapper
Data Vis Dispatch, October 31
Say Hi to Alex!
Why do Swiss people die?
New: Browse through our River favorites
What we learned from migrating our web app to SvelteKit
Data Vis Dispatch, October 24
Love in the fast lane
Read “Building Science Graphics” by Jen Christiansen with us!
Data Vis Dispatch, October 17
Remind readers of the colors in your data visualization
The Nobel Prize-winning theory on why the gender gap is still a thing
Hot Strike Summer: A Prequel
Data Vis Dispatch, October 10
How we configured autoscaling for Datawrapper image exports
Say Hi to Michi!
Data Vis Dispatch, September 26
Birdwatching by the billion
Data Vis Dispatch, September 19
Speaking, singing, and clicking in whale
Data Vis Dispatch, September 12
Who’s behind the wheel in the U.K.?
Data Vis Dispatch, September 5
Thirty days of biking in Berlin
Data Vis Dispatch, August 29
How to design a useful (and fun!) color key for your data visualization
The “new normal”: Charts on how we at Datawrapper slowly return to the office
Data Vis Dispatch, August 22
Using DuckDB to analyze over 95 million taxi  rides
Data Vis Dispatch, August 15
Struve’s flat(ter) Earth
Fleeting encounters in Mrs. Dalloway’s London
Data Vis Dispatch, August 8
Say Hi to Luc!
This is the 300th Weekly Chart
Data Vis Dispatch, August 1
Visualizing my musical journey
Data Vis Dispatch, July 25
Emphasize what you want readers to see with color
Special Olympic Games in Berlin
Data Vis Dispatch, July 18
Why German trees are (and aren’t) dying
Data Vis Dispatch, July 11
A fair way (or four) to look at global carbon emissions
Data Vis Dispatch, July 4
Say Hi to Antonio!
Data Vis Dispatch, June 27
The most common baby names are far less common these days
Te(a) or cha(i)?
Join our webinars: Getting started with Datawrapper, and a Maps Deep Dive
Data Vis Dispatch, June 20
Say Hi to Jack!
British marriage, zoomed out
Data Vis Dispatch, June 13
Join our webinar to learn more about Datawrapper maps
How long are Brits waiting to start a family?
Data Vis Dispatch, June 6
A story of ice and landscape
The Magdeburg skyline in an area chart
Data Vis Dispatch, May 30
Join our webinar to get started with Datawrapper
How Vienna found a unique model for low rent
Data Vis Dispatch, May 23
The 2018 Central Park Squirrel Census
Spring in Berlin
Data Vis Dispatch, May 9
What is it with backend developers and %@$*! phones?
Data Vis Dispatch, May 2
How many composers have I listened to?
Data Vis Dispatch, April 25
Once in Perugia, always in Perugia
Data Vis Dispatch, April 18
We’re hiring a UI/UX designer
Do we use our right to vote?
Data Vis Dispatch, April 11
The bestselling Mario games of all time
Data Vis Dispatch, April 4
From Eimsbüttel to Neuland: The city of Hamburg and its 100+ districts
Data Vis Dispatch, March 28
The minefield in Earth’s orbit
Data Vis Dispatch, March 21
Say Hi to Guillermina!
How to measure the Earth
Data Vis Dispatch, March 14
We’re hiring!
Faster dashboards with web components
Data Vis Dispatch, March 7
Embed Datawrapper visualizations without iframes
Families in the housing crisis
Data Vis Dispatch, February 28
A primer on Foreign Direct Investment
Data Vis Dispatch, February 21
Brazil’s unique views on race
Data Vis Dispatch, February 14
A tale of love, woe, and data vis
Data Vis Dispatch, February 7
For the poor, retirement is short(er)
Data Vis Dispatch, January 31
Recreating a chart from history: a beginner’s look in the data vis world
Data Vis Dispatch, January 24
Resolve as I say, not as I do
Data Vis Dispatch, January 17
New Year’s around the world
Data Vis Dispatch, January 10
The biggest movies of 2022
Data Vis Dispatch, January 3
Which chart types did our users create in 2022?
Data Vis Dispatch, December 27
No more white Christmas?
Data Vis Dispatch, December 20
Trains versus planes
New: Add a symbol size legend to your scatterplot
Data Vis Dispatch, December 13
The case for speed limits
New: Create symbol maps with our redesigned data upload step
Data Vis Dispatch, December 6
Women and hidden violence
New: Sticky table columns and more
Data Vis Dispatch, November 29
Visualizing my year in music with a calendar heatmap
Data Vis Dispatch, November 22
What is driving our carbon emissions and what to do about it
Data Vis Dispatch, November 15
A gap on the map: How busy are the rails?
Data Vis Dispatch, November 8
When do people watch fireworks around the world?
Data Vis Dispatch, November 1
How committed are my projects?
Data Vis Dispatch, October 25
How transparent are my clothes?
Data Vis Dispatch, October 18
Could your vote swing the Senate?
Data Vis Dispatch, October 11
MariLINE Monroe: More line chart art
Data Vis Dispatch, October 4
Which ticket should I buy?
What to consider when using text in data visualizations
Say Hi to Veronika!
Say Hi to Inga!
In the climate crisis, vulnerable countries bear the least responsibility
Data Vis Dispatch, September 20
Say Hi to Doce!
With a balloon toward the North Pole
Say Hi to Elliot!
Which fonts to use for your charts and tables
Is the FIFA World Cup good or bad for the host nation’s economy?
Data Vis Dispatch, September 6
Why web pages can have a size problem
How long do animals sleep?
Say Hi to Livnah!
Data Vis Dispatch, August 23
Say Hi to Pascal!
Is the Rhine drying up?
Data Vis Dispatch, August 16
Animating a globe with a scatterplot
Data Vis Dispatch, August 9
Is it a bug or a feature?
Data Vis Dispatch, August 2
The masked bandits come to Germany
Data Vis Dispatch, July 26
How to choose an interpolation for your color scale
The long way around
Data Vis Dispatch, July 19
Are there good words to divide the world?
Say Hi to Shaylee!
Data Vis Dispatch, July 12
Globalization, Supply Chains, and Conflict in the Crimea
Data Vis Dispatch, July 5
Wir stellen eine Teilzeitkraft für Büroorganisation (m/w/d) in Berlin ein
We’re hiring a senior backend developer
We’re hiring a full-stack developer
What background color should your data vis have?
Data Vis Dispatch, June 28
Where houseplants really come from
Data Vis Dispatch, June 21
One year in vis
Data Vis Dispatch, June 14
A look at some depressing data about school shootings in the U.S.
Say Hi to John!
Data Vis Dispatch, June 7
May 2022 set a new record for the inflation rate in Germany. Here is an overview of the last 70 years.
Data Vis Dispatch, May 31
We’re hiring a data vis evangelist
We’re hiring a data vis writer
Cloudy climate… with a chance of meatballs
Data Vis Dispatch, May 24
Going back in time on abortion law
Data Vis Dispatch, May 17
Sex and the census
Data Vis Dispatch, May 10
The race to build the fastest supercomputer
New: Support for right-to-left languages in all visualizations
Data Vis Dispatch, May 3
Convenience stores on every corner
Data Vis Dispatch, April 26
We’re hiring a product specialist and evangelist
Who made my clothes?
Small improvements in spring 2022
Data Vis Dispatch, April 19
We’re hiring a customer success and support specialist
We’re hiring a senior data visualization developer
We are pushing the planet over the edge
Data Vis Dispatch, April 12
A table set for fasting
Investopedia: “Datawrapper is taking our content to the next level”
Data Vis Dispatch, April 5
Wheat at war
A detailed guide to colors in data vis style guides
Data Vis Dispatch, March 29
Macron’s “Falklands effect”
Data Vis Dispatch, COVID Trackers Special
When will spring arrive?
Data Vis Dispatch, March 15
Flight routes and map projections
War and power
Data Vis Dispatch, March 1
It’s raining wherever I go
Celebrating ten years since the Datawrapper beta
Data Vis Dispatch, February 22
What can we learn from medieval prices and wages?
10 ways to use fewer colors in your data visualizations
Data Vis Dispatch, February 15
Green color shows where words match
New York City Department of Health: “Datawrapper was the backbone of our COVID reporting”
Data Vis Dispatch, February 8
The true cost of driving
KFF: “We are all-in on Datawrapper”
Data Vis Dispatch, February 1
Lego builds itself (back) up
New: Dark mode for all Datawrapper visualizations
Data Vis Dispatch, January 25
More money, more COVID-19 vaccinations? Let’s look at the outliers with a bivariate map.
Data Vis Dispatch, January 18
Three decades of European government leaders
It’s time for a more sophisticated color contrast check for data visualizations
Data Vis Dispatch, January 11
How Datawrapper developers perceive the cost of function names
Watch Lisa write our book on how to use colors in data vis
Data Vis Dispatch, January 4
Which chart types did our users create in 2021?
A wave of words
Santa’s Helpers
Data Vis Dispatch, December 14
Anna – the most common name in Sweden
Data Vis Dispatch, December 7
The meanings of life
Data Vis Dispatch, November 30
From Osaka to Johannesburg by bike
Read “Visual Thinking for Information Design” with us!
Data Vis Dispatch, November 23
Queer stories of violence in Berlin
Data Vis Dispatch, November 16
Say Hi to Rebecca!
An early Berlin Christmas
Data Vis Dispatch, November 9
An endless summer day in December
Data Vis Dispatch, November 2
A heatmap for the cool fall days
Data Vis Dispatch, October 26
Plotting fall temperatures with our new range & value overlays in column charts
How to match data with VLOOKUP in Excel & Google Sheets
SWI swissinfo.ch: “Datawrapper is the perfect tool for our work”
Data Vis Dispatch, October 19
The give and take of volcanoes
Say Hi to Marten!
Data Vis Dispatch, October 12
Your favorite chart type is more flexible than you think
Data Vis Dispatch, October 5
Years, months, days, and hours — in one chart
Use our completely redesigned data upload for choropleth maps
Data Vis Dispatch,  September 28
The climate crisis inside our heads
Data Vis Dispatch,  September 21
Shirley Wu and Nadieh Bremer on freelancing, finding inspiration, and sharing the full journey
When will Europe phase out coal?
Data Vis Dispatch, September 14
How the Social Democrats came to lead the German polls, up-close
Data Vis Dispatch, September 7
Which German party is the most unlucky when it comes to election dates?
Data Vis Dispatch, August 31
How to visualize polls and results of the German election with Datawrapper
Is this normality yet?
Data Vis Dispatch, August 24
Days with extreme heat are likely becoming more frequent
Data Vis Dispatch, August 17
By 2037, human-made materials will outweigh all living things on Earth
Data Vis Dispatch, August 10
Can you raise an Olympic snowboarder in the tropics?
Data Vis Dispatch, August 3
Who did people spend time with in 2020?
Data Vis Dispatch, July 27
In defense of simple charts
We’re hiring a backend developer
A happy life: Does it depend on where you live?
London City Hall: “Datawrapper has sparked a change”
Data Vis Dispatch, July 20
How Barcelona is claiming its streets back from cars
Data Vis Dispatch, July 13
How much hotter will it get in your lifetime?
Say Hi to Margaux!
Data Vis Dispatch, July 6
Three simple ideas for better election poll graphics
Data Vis Dispatch, June 29
A full month more above 20°C
Data Vis Dispatch, June 22
Read “Data Sketches” with us!
Game of Life
Summer is here! It’s the best time to eat fresh local fruits — and create tables
The Philadelphia Inquirer: “With Datawrapper, I bet on the right horse.”
Who would want to leave New York?
Show confidence intervals and value markers in Datawrapper bar charts
Counting the sunny hours
How do men and women spend their time?
New: Add place labels in choropleth and symbol maps with one click
Say Hi to Rose!
Why nobody knows how to pronounce my name in Japanese
New: Let your readers download and embed your visualizations
Does a higher budget make a movie more successful?
Three things people spent money on in 2020
Let others create Datawrapper visualizations directly from your website
The dancing cranes of Lake Hornborga
How historic vaccination research paved the way for the COVID-19 vaccine
Commuting & Covid-19: How the pandemic changed my travel behavior
The Container Crunch
We’re improving the accessibility for Datawrapper charts and maps
We’re Hiring: Join our Support & Success Team
The older you get, the higher your life expectancy
We redesigned our website and blog
Who owns the Nile?
Which color scale to use when visualizing data
When to use quantitative and when to use qualitative color scales
When to use sequential and when to use diverging color scales
When to use classed and when to use unclassed color scales
A real heatmap
Read “Better Data Visualizations” with us!
Datawrapper is now available in Chinese, Spanish, French, and Italian
Datawrapper, lo strumento per la visualizzazione dei dati, è ora disponibile in lingua italiana
La herramienta de visualización de datos Datawrapper está ahora disponible en español
L’outil de visualisation de données Datawrapper est désormais disponible en français
数据可视化工具 Datawrapper 现已推出中文版
Making waterlines in locator maps move: an experiment
Our new axis ticks make your charts easier to read
We’re hiring: Become our marketing/copy writer
Just another hottest day ever in February
Is science still a man’s world?
A tilemap of Switzerland cantons – with some twists
The oldest U.S. Senate to date, but not the least representative
Read four chapters from “Data Visualization in Society” with us (it’s free)!
Why are there so many Wikipedia articles in Swedish and Cebuano?
A minimal chart about global warming for the hottest year on record
How much money did I lose by not investing in Bitcoin?
Who got vaccinated first against SARS-CoV-2?
The year 2020 at Datawrapper
Which chart types did our users create in 2020?
A chart’s worth of hope
How many people live in Antarctica?
Why the UK has the better system for public holidays
Winter wonderland
Only about a quarter of the members of parliament worldwide are women
How to create an interactive infographic of our solar system with Datawrapper
How I brought column charts into map tooltips
Visualizing the Polarized States of America
Create better, more responsive text annotations (yes, also on maps)
Street trees & tree streets
Among us gamers
Introducing heatmaps for Datawrapper tables
Infamous tweets
How to visualize polls & results of the U.S. elections with Datawrapper
Introducing spike maps
Datawrapper, JavaScript, and the Elbe
Our new choropleth & symbol maps: Easier to use, better-looking, faster.
Renewable energy is now cheaper than energy from fossil fuels
These scatter plots of heat and rain helped me understand our changing climate
The moving of the Swedish mining city Kiruna
A post-punk chart
How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations
The year Germany lost 1.5 million people
Say Hi to Edurne!
Women graduate, men are in power.
200,000 words later
Painting by numbers
New Custom & Enterprise feature: Image Publishing
Data Debate: Stop flying or become vegetarian? Part 2.
New in locator maps: Pattern fills
Data Debate: Stop flying or become vegetarian? Part 1.
Tomorrow’s weather in Datawrapper: A live-updating locator map
Some records aren’t meant to be broken
How lonely have people become during the coronavirus pandemic?
Read “Data Feminism” by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein with us!
Say Hi to Aya!
Who has been able to work from home during the coronavirus pandemic?
You’ve informed the public with visualizations about the coronavirus. Thank you.
What’s it like to be colorblind
Are peaceful protests more successful than violent ones?
What to consider when visualizing data for colorblind readers
The COVID-19 chart I wish I didn’t have to make
How your colorblind and colorweak readers see your colors
How I created contour lines with ASTER DEM data to show map elevation
Which EuroVelo bike route is the hardest to bike?
Say Hi to David!
Calculating with your uploaded data in Datawrapper is now easier
The coronavirus death toll
Natali(n)e Portman: The chart that wasn’t
New in locator maps: Add regions as area markers
Creating Art with Time
Which route did Hannibal and his elephants take to cross the Alps?
How much is music worth to you?
Visualizing two years of wondering & wandering
How to import JSON data into Google Sheets to create a live COVID-19 chart
Charting the corona effect
How to calculate shaded relief for the entire world with GDAL, fast
How the past can help us to understand the economic future after corona
Less link blue, more red? A web color history
Read “Data Visualisation” by Andy Kirk with us!
Our simpler, tidier & more consistent bar chart editing
Of merchants and pilgrims
#FlattenTheCurve, but by how much?
#FlattenTheCurve
17 (or so) responsible live visualizations about the coronavirus, for you to use
What would happen if we had no leap days?
Highlight regions with vignettes in your locator maps
A locked-down Wuhan, moved to New York State
Aftenposten: “An article with a chart feels like a better article.”
Read six data vis research papers with us!
Kölle Alaaf!
Journalism professor Adam Marton: “The students don’t have any trouble picking it up.”
Become our writer/support intern and help others create data visualizations
How big is that, though?
Statistics Flanders: “We want to reach everyone.”
Putting daily temperature ranges in context
New America: “Dammit, why didn’t we just pay for Datawrapper a year ago?”
How 538 reindeer traveled from Norway to Alaska in 1898
Analyzing 100 years of election results in one chart
Introducing materials for Datawrapper workshops
Say Hi to Jakub!
Ever looked a bar chart in the eye before?
How to use the new Python library “datawrapper” to create 34 charts in a few seconds
How tax evasion by the ultra-rich is everyone’s problem
Let’s eat our way through Berlin
Which chart types did our users create in 2019?
The case for choosing clarity over complexity in data visualizations
Run Fabian Run
The best hip-hop songs of all time, visualized
Why I created an R package to use Datawrapper’s API and how to use it
Freedom vs safety – how fast should you be able to drive on highways?
Collaborate with others on charts, maps & tables in teams, for free
Create data viz with Datawrapper, with our new, strong free plan
My musical taste (or at least a sample of it) vs the world
Show mountains & valleys in your locator maps
Automate your chart creation with our new API
Fast trains, fast map?
Is Antarctica a pie chart?
New: Export your locator maps as PDFs & SVGs, including the map layer
View of Antarctica from Berlin
Datawrapper will update its pricing on Dec 1st, 2019.
Chasing Gerd
How to save the world while making people better off
How to prepare your data for analysis and charting in Excel & Google Sheets
How to split and extract text from data columns in Excel & Google Sheets
You thought Russians were the heaviest drinkers? Think again.
Read “How Charts Lie” by Alberto Cairo with us
A Scatter Plot about Rebellious Germans
Who takes us to space?
Become a vector export developer at Datawrapper
What different degrees of global warming look like
To leave or to stay? That is the question.
Which milk has the smallest impact on the planet?
Us here, them there
Nuclear power won’t help us to fight climate change.
The Baltic Sea during the last 15,000 years
The black dots that warm our planet
There are no 1.7 Earths
How a man wanted to empty the Mediterranean sea, for peace
Where am I from: San Francisco or the Bay Area?
The rich are killing the planet
How we at n-tv used HTML to add custom color keys to Datawrapper charts & tables
Humanity’s Turning Point
The only chart we should be looking at
Work through “Observe, Collect, Draw!” by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec with us
Why you will hear more from all of us (not just Lisa) in future Weekly Charts
We’re hiring someone to help us with Marketing in Berlin
Greenland’s ice is melting, but without an OMG moment
Tech acquisitions in the past few years: What is expensive? What is cheap?
Leipzig and Tønsberg – Avengers in Europe
Where Europe voted and where it didn’t
Sparklines: Comparable or not?
What to consider when creating tables
A black & white table about parties (you know, without the party colors)
Our new Tables: responsive, with sparklines, bar charts and sticky rows
The 2014 European Parliament election results in new Datawrapper maps
Three jobs of a callout line
New in locator maps: Point to locations & markers with callout lines
Berlin on Airbnb: What are the most and least expensive districts?
An alternative to John Snow’s Cholera map
Say Hi to Daniela!
A too complicated map
Read “Factfulness” by Hans Rosling with us
Two charts in one
Scatterplot with a Pearl Earring
Datawrapper joins protest against Article 11 and 13 of the EU Copyright Directive
Germany’s culture of remembrance in numbers
A colorful π chart
Setting dynamic prefixed CSS grid properties with JavaScript
Nineties, noughties, ?
Export your Locator Map markers & take them wherever you want
Small Improvements in January and February 2019
Are women now better represented in films than ever before?
The periodic table is a scatterplot. (Among others.)
“I love you.” How many?
2018: The fourth hottest year. Compared to what?
Read “Info We Trust” by RJ Andrews with us
Which European cities have gotten warmer? (Spoiler: All of them.)
Salt deserts, glaciers, penguins & a moon landscape
A very complicated simple range plot
Pulling politicians together, with stiff & flexible springs
Say Hi to Simon!
Shares as position & color
Which chart types did our users create in 2018?
The rise of the Chinese tourist is the rise of a confident red line
Our deliciously new pies & donuts – also as small multiples
A bar chart made of dots
A renewed pledge to keep all our user’s charts online
Line charts for distributions, not time
Say Hi to Fabian!
You can now import areas & lines to locator maps (plus other improvements)
Do you see a tram? You’re in East Berlin.
Wir suchen eine/n Office Manager/in in Berlin
Just lines and rectangles.
A year of work at Datawrapper
Celebrating & judging 1 year of Weekly Charts
Small Improvements in October 2018
Conceptually close vs physically close
No perfection, just the best possible compromise
The longest Datawrapper chart you’ve ever seen
We’re hiring a software engineer in Berlin
What we wrote about in the last year
Countries in Countries in Countries
Introducing Locator Maps in Datawrapper
Dollars for College (or TV🤔)
Dollars for Booze
Read “Storytelling with Data” by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic with us
Depth and breadth in charts
A shrinking surplus of women
There have been 2200 wildfires in Germany this year.
Election results in pink & blue
Election reporting: Which color for which party?
Let’s look at Johnny Depp’s love life
Read Tamara Munzner & Alberto Cairo with us
We read Tufte. It was great.
Designing for memorability
The challenges of visualizing climate change
Say Hi to Hans!
Play games and get rich (if your name is Ninja)
Your friendly guide to colors in data visualisation
So you got a kid. Would you rather have more money or more time?
How much does Edward Tufte travel?
Join the Data Vis Book Club & read Tufte with us
‘This is so good you wouldn’t know it was done by a woman.’
An alternative to pink & blue: Colors for gender data
Rollover here, roll over there
Moving the title into the chart
Introducing custom map uploads
China begins just east of Finland
2018 World Cup results, in Datawrapper charts
How to read a log scale: What Mike Bostock means
Say Hi to Elana!
How to read a log scale: The chart that can’t start at zero
How to read a log scale: Growth rate
What to consider when choosing colors for data visualization
You see a line chart, but you get a scatterplot
Which country offers the best life? Nobody knows.
When marrying in Wyoming, buy a car
Connect Datawrapper to your Google Sheets or live data
Why not to use two axes, and what to use instead
Sugar, all of it
Using up more than we offer
How to get data in the right format with pivot tables
Less smoke in the Western world
Say Hi to Hendrik!
We’re hiring: Help us to help others
Climbing higher, one step at the time
Say Hi to Anna!
Only show the map regions you want to show
Equality, before & after taxes
Introducing the improved data editor
Absolute vs Relative: Who lives in the capitals?
Different units, different patterns
What to consider when creating choropleth maps
Listen to Datawrapper on Data Stories
Brelinski doesn’t like 100% chocolate
The most controversial candy bar
The case against diverging stacked bars
One map, 500 cities
Introducing Cartograms in Datawrapper
The not so worldwide worldwide web
Time off
What to consider when creating stacked column charts
Five ways to read a scatterplot
“The reward of interacting is understanding”
Datawrapper now checks your colors, so you don’t have to
Our world in the long term
Introducing: Datawrapper River
How good is your English?
What to consider when creating line charts
Marriage? Maybe later.
We’re hiring a basemap creator in Berlin
What the difference between mean and median tells us about income inequality
What to consider when creating area charts
Carbon dioxide concentration over time
What to consider when creating pie charts
Columns about bars
National elections in Europe: Who votes, who doesn’t
May the critics be with you
“The key to a good data story is the story itself”
A continent on the rise
The shiny redesign of our landing page
A rusting fountain of youth in Germany
The Datawrapper Roadmap for 2018
Bright spots in an old land
Respect your readers’ time
A new home for our blog: Hexo
What Questions to Ask When Creating Charts
I’m surrounded by old people
How to choose a color palette for choropleth maps
That Frustrating Thing about Creating Data Vis in Newsrooms
Say Hi to Ivan!
Say Hi to Lisa!
New: US Congressional Districts and District Courts Maps
A better way to keep track of your chart creations
New: Arrow and Range Plots
New Datawrapper Features to Cover Elections
Reuters Institute puts their trust in Datawrapper for 2017 Digital News Report
New: Area Charts in Datawrapper
Datawrapper is hiring: Full-Stack Web Dev in Berlin
Improved: Datawrapper Academy
New: UK election maps in Datawrapper
Introducing: Scatter plot
German municipality-level maps in Datawrapper
Improved: Stacked column charts
Making column and pie charts great on mobile and Desktop
Datawrapper becomes mobile-first charting tool
Medium integrates with Datawrapper
Updated: Line Charts
Datawrapper is now free for up to 10k chart views
Create Brexit Maps with Datawrapper
New Maps, Embedding and Sharing
Easy Comparison: Dot-Plots
Create symbol maps with Datawrapper
Introducing: All-New Datawrapper Maps
Beautiful tables in Datawrapper
Datawrapper Introduces Curated Chart Gallery
Datawrapper 1.10
Datawrapper 1.9
Data visualization for sports business strategy
How IJBA trains visualization skills
How Kwantlen Polytechnic University trains data skills
Datawrapper 1.8
New Usage Guidelines for Datawrapper
Hello Datawrapper Maps, welcome Datawrapper Team
Datawrapper 1.6
Feeding data into Datawrapper
Datawrapper 1.5
Datawrapper Crosses Mark of 10 Million Chart Views
Releases 1.2.8 and 1.2.9
Best Practice: The Guardian Data Blog
Datawrapper in the News
Datawrapper 1.1
Datawrapper 1.0.2
The technologies used in Datawrapper
Hello world, hello Datawrapper 1.0