@nrchtct @datawrapper Thanks, Marian – and congrats to being a winner yourself! A beautiful project indeed 👏

@yetzt @datawrapper I know, right?! I was initially confused about the year as well 😄

Wow! It's a great honor to receive this Information is Beautiful Award.

Thanks to @datawrapper for letting me help and inspire people. And thanks to everyone else who's contributing to the lovely #dataviz community – by sharing knowledge, hosting events/podcasts, and so much more!

Make sure to check out all the other #IIBAwards 2024 winners: https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/news/680-announcing-the-2024-winners

@befristet Violin plots *are* really pretty! (Mentioning them and linking to an explanation was my sneaky way of making people aware of them even though they don't have a place in this very blog post...)

@kgjenkins Ah yes, that's a good section to add in the next version of the blog post :D

I put together an overview of chart types!
Which one of your favorites did I forget?

Here's the full article with explanations to all chart types: https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/chart-types-guide

🎉 New blog post! Choosing colors for a #dataviz on race, ethnicity or continents can be tricky. I collected lots of examples and wrote down 6 guidelines to help ensure all your readers feel respected by your color choices: https://blog.datawrapper.de/colors-for-race-ethnicity-world-regions/

@wahlatlas @gka @datawrapper @juliustroeger Aw, thanks for the nice words!
So great to hear you enjoyed it so far.

🎉 New blog post! And — you guessed it — it's about small multiple line charts. When to use them instead of line charts? And how to make them easier to read and more beautiful to look at?

Our writer @lisacmuth covers the do's and don'ts: https://blog.datawrapper.de/what-to-consider-when-creating-small-multiple-line-charts/

🎉🎉🎉 Big news: You can now create small multiple line charts with our new chart type “Multiple Lines”! Give each line its own panel, then sort, style, annotate, show lines on independent scales, and more.

See what’s possible in our announcement post: https://blog.datawrapper.de/small-multiple-line-charts/

📣 We’re excited to announce the first speakers for Unwrapped, the free, online Datawrapper conference on March 13-15:

👉 Amanda Cox will give a keynote on making better simple charts: https://blog.datawrapper.de/amanda-cox-bloomberg/
👉 Julius Tröger will talk about using Datawrapper for animations, live dashboards, and scroll formats: https://blog.datawrapper.de/zeit-online-julius-troeger/
👉 C.J. Sinner will share how she created four unique chart types out of Datawrapper scatterplots: https://blog.datawrapper.de/star-tribune-c-j-sinner/

Register here: https://www.datawrapper.de/unwrapped

Happy New Year! Our Data Vis Dispatch is still on holiday break this week, but there are enough "Best #dataviz of 2023" lists on the internet to keep you busy for days 🧵:

🔷 Newsrooms:
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🔷 Axios: https://www.axios.com/2023-axios-visuals-year-in-review
🔷 The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/2023-year-in-graphics.html
🔷 The Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/business/media/the-year-in-graphics-f3aaf872?mod=e2twg
🔷 Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-in-graphics/
🔷 Texas Tribune: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/28/texas-tribune-data-visuals-top-stories-2023/
🔷 Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/projects/data-graphics-best-of-2023-maps-charts/
🔷 USA Today: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2023/12/15/2023-year-in-review-visual-guide/71920351007/

Today we published the last Dispatch of 2023 — and it's a special one, filled with the Datawrapper team's hand-picked visualizations from the past year. ✨ Did you encounter a chart that stayed in your mind this year?

👉 Read the full post here: https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-19-2023

The Dispatch will take a few weeks' holiday pause. See you in 2024! 🎆

We're excited to announce 🎁 Unwrapped, the Datawrapper conference! Unwrapped will happen virtually on March 14th and 15th, 2024.

Are you using Datawrapper in an unusual, creative, or simply successful way? Become a speaker & give a 5, 10, or 20 min talk: https://blog.datawrapper.de/call-for-speakers-unwrapped-datawrapper-conference/

📣 The next meeting of our data vis book club is happening on January 29th at 5pm UTC!

We'll be discussing “Questions in Dataviz” by Neil Richards on this notepad: https://notes.datawrapper.de/p/questions-in-dataviz

More information in the announcement on our blog 👇
https://blog.datawrapper.de/questions-in-dataviz-book-club/

Interested in how science graphics are made? @christiansenjen included a step-by-step guide in her great book "Building Science Graphics".

We'll discuss it in exactly two weeks, on December 4th – it's not too late to get the book and join us!
https://blog.datawrapper.de/book-club-building-science-graphics/

Today I published a blog post that will hopefully help all of you who love data vis, but have no idea how to go from there to "actually creating great data vis". It's full of my learnings from many years.

Find it here: https://blog.datawrapper.de/how-to-get-started-with-data-visualization/

🎉 New blog post! Are you excited about #dataviz, but don't know how to get started creating them? Our writer @lisacmuth shares a personal but practical guide to answer that very question.

Find her article (incl. lots of examples, exercises, and a cute GIF!) here: https://blog.datawrapper.de/how-to-get-started-with-data-visualization/

It's been a year since I made the move from news to software. Here's a few thoughts on what it's like working at @datawrapper after eight years in a newsroom. https://elliotbentley.com/blog/first-year-at-datawrapper/

Five years ago, I organized the first of 13 Data Vis Book Club sessions. I'm thrilled that we announced today that the book club is back, hosted by my great coworker @gsutters!

Come join us to read @ChristiansenJen's book "Building Science Graphics": https://blog.datawrapper.de/book-club-building-science-graphics/