The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations | Continue reading
How to make your data visualizations easier to read (and more interesting to look at!) with the right use of text. | Continue reading
How to create a color palette for the data visualizations in your organization. (You won't find a more extensive guide on this topic.) | Continue reading
We're going back in time this week, to England in the year 1340. What does data tell us about the average person’s life? | Continue reading
The WCAG contrast requirements are flawed. Here's what a new approach could mean for data visualizations. | Continue reading
A writing system with three scripts & thousands of kanji characters | Continue reading
Hi, this is Eddie! Here at Datawrapper, I enjoy interacting with our users by answering their questions to support@datawrapper.de, managing our social | Continue reading
A short overview of the different color scales (diverging, sequential, categorical) that you can use to visualize your data. | Continue reading
Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier. | Continue reading
What log scales tell us. | Continue reading
Different ways to ensure red-/green-/blue-blind readers can read your data visualizations. | Continue reading
Using Datawrapper for generative art | Continue reading
The best hip-hop songs – but where are all the women rappers? | Continue reading
Tl;dr: We believe that charts with two different y-axes make it hard for most people to intuitively make right statements about two data series. We recommend two alternatives strongly: using two ch | Continue reading
When to use a table instead of a chart? How to improve table designs? I will answer these questions for a storytelling context. | Continue reading
Yesterday, Google announced that it will be shutting down Google Fusion Tables within the next twelve months. As of December 2019, all charts and maps created with Fusion Tables will stop working. | Continue reading
Once upon a time, I tweeted on an urgent matter. “Can somebody tell me how to get better with color?” I wrote." My color decisions are awful." I got a lot of replies with links to tools. They were awe | Continue reading
Maps are not objective, but a version of reality. When creating them, lots of choices are made: What to map, how to map and whether or not to use a map in the first place. Here we’ll try to find guide | Continue reading