The online conference for Datawrapper users, March 13-15, 2024.

Some housekeeping and how to make the most of Unwrapped, from our head of communications, Lisa Charlotte Muth.

If you’re new to Datawrapper, this is the perfect session for you. Datawrapper product specialist Guillermina will give you a gentle introduction to the tool, demo how to create a chart, map, and table with it, and explain concepts like “API” and “Datawrapper teams.”

Pearl is a lecturer at the University of Ghana Regional Institute for Population Studies and has created over 1,000 Datawrapper visualizations for census reports, teaching, and research. She’ll show how she uses tables to present many regional trends in one graphic.

Victòria is a data journalist at the Spanish online news site elDiario.es. She’ll talk about quickly drafting ideas and reacting fast to news with Datawrapper, while considering some in-house style rules.

Elana leads visualization development at Datawrapper. She’ll talk about how we decide what features to add and what form they’re going to take, and what actually goes into transforming them from idea to reality. After the talk, the whole Datawrapper vis team will be there to answer your questions.

Some housekeeping, a recap of yesterday’s conference day, and what to expect today from our head of communications, Lisa Charlotte Muth.

Anna Lombardi is a data journalist turned climate data visualizer at the Copernicus Climate Change Service. She’ll talk about how Datawrapper has helped her in very different work environments.

Ana is a data leader at Odd Data & Design Studio, a Spain- and Brazil-based information design studio. She’ll share how to use Datawrapper to train researchers to create beautiful, clear, and engaging visualizations tailored to their target audience.

Alex is the data visualisation lead at Dealroom.co, a startup intelligence platform based in Amsterdam. He’ll talk about live-connecting Google Sheets to Datawrapper to build two brand-new client-facing products.

Taylor Orth is the director of survey data journalism at YouGov. She’ll talk about ways to use Datawrapper to distill complex public opinion data into accessible visual narratives, including common pitfalls.

Lucy is a senior research and data associate at the nonprofit Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development in New York City. She’ll talk about using Datawrapper to shift public narratives and convince elected officials.

Matthew is the director of data communication at the NYC Health Department’s Bureau of Environmental Surveillance and Policy. He’ll talk about how the NYC Health Department used Github, vanilla Javascript, and Datawrapper to power a COVID-19 dashboard.

Taylor Bednarz is the senior data visualization epidemiologist with the Maricopa County Department of Public Health. Taylor will share how Datawrapper made it easy to create several iterations of their COVID-19 Vaccine Data webpage to better suit community needs over time.

Julia is the editor of the Americas graphics team at Reuters. She’ll talk about her experience introducing Datawrapper at FiveThirtyEight and helping to roll it out globally at Reuters.

Julius Tröger is head of Data and Visualization at the German newsroom ZEIT Online. His talk will cover how his team has used Datawrapper visualizations for animations, live dashboards, and scroll formats.

Paula and Jaime are data journalists at the data journalism unit of the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE. They’ll talk about how they developed a workflow with the API, an organized folder system, and ad hoc templates.

Phil is the lead creative for interactive news graphics at the Associated Press (AP). He’ll talk about what he learned when creating several style guides/custom themes for Datawrapper visualizations.

Muna is a PhD candidate at the University College London Interaction Centre. She’ll talk about borrowing findings from cognitive perception research for guidelines for right-to-left visualizations.

Rose is a data vis writer and editor at the Datawrapper. She’ll talk about current trends and new practices in visual and data journalism.

A recap of yesterday’s conference day and what to expect today from our head of communications, Lisa Charlotte Muth.

Ceren is a self-employed cartographer, data visualization designer, and Datawrapper beginner. She’ll talk about creating a locator map (with custom geodata and annotations) as a counter-cartographic visualization of her experience of navigating Belfast as a young immigrant woman.

Philipp is the team lead “Data Journalism” at one of the largest German publisher networks. He’ll talk about using locator maps to the fullest with grid maps, unique map keys, additional diagrams, CSS, and custom geodata.

Patrick is the co-lead of the data & visualization department at the German newsroom Der Spiegel. He’ll share some of the most unusual hacks his team has implemented in Datawrapper.

Lalon is a data journalist for the German daily taz and the public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). He’ll talk about how using Python and Streamlit, his team built a tool with which they can link any number of charts together.

Ben is a Data Visualization Developer on the Communications team at the Urban Institute. He’ll talk about using Datawrapper’s chart interaction events messages and the JavaScript framework Svelte to show information about data points outside of the visualization.

C.J. is the Director of Graphics and Data Visuals at the Star Tribune. She’ll talk about how her team created a timeline, a lollipop chart, a beeswarm chart and a Taylor Swift Eras Tour surprise song tracker – all with the Datawrapper scatterplot chart type.

Kiko is a data editor at the Spanish newspaper El País. He’ll talk about using the Datawrapper API to produce custom (special!) Datawrapper charts such as histograms, beeswarm plots, or bizarre column charts.

Erkka is an information specialist at the Library of the Finnish Parliament. He’ll share insights and a workaround that make working with dates in tables easier using the Datawrapper API.

Matilda is a data journalist at The Times and The Sunday Times. She’ll talk about how her team uses Datawrapper and the API alongside other programs to get the best from their journalists.

Sören and Fin are data journalists working for
the German newsroom SZ. They’ll talk about using the Datawrapper API for automated labelling, buttons, tooltips, and more.

Jared is a data visual journalist, designer and web developer on the Axios Visuals team. He’ll talk about a workflow using Bash and R to automate the creation of the same Datawrapper visualizations for different data sets.

Jon McClure and Ben Welsh create graphics at Reuters. At Unwrapped, they’ll talk how the reporters, editors and computer programmers at Reuters use Datawrapper to create, automate and disseminate hundreds of charts each week.

Sean Greene is an assistant editor on the Data & Graphics desk at the Los Angeles Times. He’ll talk about his teams use of the Datawrapper API to power a drought tracker.